Re: Gosh, I can't believe this!!! (was: who's guilty...)

1996-12-02 Thread Eloy A. Paris
At 09:24 PM 12/1/96 -0800, you wrote: >I'll offer this guess: the troublesome card does DMA, and is not being shut >down before the kernel reboots. It writes to its previously programmed >buffer address during the memory test, which of course causes the memory >test to fail. Warm boot works beca

Re: Gosh, I can't believe this!!! (was: who's guilty...)

1996-12-02 Thread Bill Roman
Eloy A. Paris wrote: > > well, I have spent my whole Saturday chasing the answer and I think I am > pretty close now. I think I found the cause: it's that damned Boca Research > BOCALAN card VL. Today I tried EVERYTHING: > [...] > I ran for about 1 and a half years kernel 1.2.13 on this machine an

Re: Gosh, I can't believe this!!! (was: who's guilty...)

1996-12-01 Thread Bruce Perens
I'll copy your report to Donald Becker, the driver author. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscrib