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- From: aarond@xibm.StorTek.com (Aaron Dailey)
- Subject: problems with old WD8003s and PC-NFS 3.5
- Message-ID: <AAROND.92Aug25092112@xibm.StorTek.com>
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- Organization: StorageTek
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:21:12 GMT
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- Some background: we're running Sun PC-NFS 3.5, on AST 386-33 computers
- and some original WD8003 Ethercard Plus ethernet cards (these are the
- old ones with a National DP8390). We're using the stock PC-NFS driver
- for the card. We run using the AUI port, with a SynOptics UTP
- transceiver, and also using the thinnet port with Black Box
- UTP/thinnet convertor. We use NIS.
-
- Our problem is this - sometimes during boot the machine will hang on
- the NET NISSET * step. At this point, the machine is really hung, and
- the only path is pressing the hardware reset switch. The funny thing
- is, sometimes in this situation, if we disconnect the UTP cable, boot
- until it hangs on the NET NISSET * step, do a warmboot, replace the
- cable quickly, all comes up correctly.
-
- Other machines we run with newer WD (SMC) cards don't have this
- problem. They're in different machines too (Compaqs and Intel
- protos). I haven't really done any swapping of hardware to see if it
- is somehow an incompatability. Has anyone seen this? found a
- solution? Is it fixed in PC-NFS4.0?
-
- thanks
-
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