hanging uvaxIIs

[Larry Philps]

In article <1461 at PUCC.BITNET> D0430 at PUCC.BITNET writes:
> 
>We have a pair of uvaxIIs running ultrix 1.1 with RFS (remote file system)
>I believe we have the most recent corrections for RFS.  Several times this
>past week both machines have gone into some kind of tight loop, without
>any sort of panic or error message.  Consoles and all terminals were locked out
>Forcing a reboot on one machine fixed the problem, and the last time it
>unclogged itself after about 20 minutes without a reboot.
>We have the upgraded DEQNA cards, but still have the old ultrix driver.

The DEQNA upgrade is useless without a corresponding software upgrade.
The deqna driver in both Ultrix 1.2 and 4.3BSD have the necessary fixes.
We had the same problem you describe when running 4.3, but it went away after
our DEQNA upgrade.
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