aidan@m1.cs.man.ac.uk (Aidan Loyns) (07/04/90)
I have a 20MHz 386 running DOS 4.01 fitted with a 3C501 card. Using Sun's PC-NFS produces the results I expect; however, when I try to use any code using the packet driver (V6), the machine randomly hangs. I've tried different ethernet cards (ne1000), but again packet driver software hangs. Any ideas? Is it worthwhile reformatting my hard disk and using Dos 3.3? Thanks, Aidan Loyns
ASLEEMAN@WAIKATO.AC.NZ (07/06/90)
>From: IN%"mcsun!ukc!mucs!m1.cs.man.ac.uk@uunet.uu.net" "Aidan Loyns" 6-JUL-1990 06:20:58.28 >To: pcip@udel.edu >Subj: Packet Drivers and Dos 4.01 > >I have a 20MHz 386 running DOS 4.01 fitted with a 3C501 card. >Using Sun's PC-NFS produces the results I expect; however, when I try to >use any code using the packet driver (V6), the machine randomly hangs. >I've tried different ethernet cards (ne1000), but again packet driver >software hangs. > >Any ideas? >Is it worthwhile reformatting my hard disk and using Dos 3.3? Hold the reformatting of your hard disk for a moment. I believe the problem is more likely to be with the packet driver interface for pcnfs. At least I and a number of others have discovered that this fall apart when you try to run PCNFS on top of V6 PACKET DRIVERS. My experience was with the wd8003e v6.5 packet driver. Have reverted to an earlier release of the packet drivers when using PCNFS things are know working very nicely. The problem has been reported. But as with anything thats free. It's quite hard to hassle someone into investigating the problem. Perhaps you might like to have a go. >Thanks. Not a problem, just don't quote me. >Aidan Loyns - Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: Comments contained within the article have been censored by the nuclear warface police. They found the contents of this article to be RADIATION FREE, exportable to the Eastern Block countries and have a G rating. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
billy@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (07/06/90)
In article <9007051613.aa10302@louie.udel.edu>, ASLEEMAN@WAIKATO.AC.NZ writes: >>From: IN%"mcsun!ukc!mucs!m1.cs.man.ac.uk@uunet.uu.net" "Aidan Loyns" 6-JUL-1990 06:20:58.28 >> >>I have a 20MHz 386 running DOS 4.01 fitted with a 3C501 card. >>Using Sun's PC-NFS produces the results I expect; however, when I try to >>use any code using the packet driver (V6), the machine randomly hangs. >>I've tried different ethernet cards (ne1000), but again packet driver >>software hangs. > > Hold the reformatting of your hard disk for a moment. I believe the problem > is more likely to be with the packet driver interface for pcnfs. > Let me share a problem that has been plaguing people in my department which may or may not be related. All of a sudden people on my network started having their PCs lock up when they left for a while. All of the people were using Version 6 of the packet drivers to access Netware286 or Netware 386 and running DOS 4.01 (NI5210 and NE1000 cards). The only things I remember happening around that time was a couple of weeks before a server was upgraded to 386 and we upgraded to V6 packet drivers. Downgrading the packet drivers fixed most people's problems. I happen to be the most noticeable exception. I've tried different versions of the NI5210 packet driver from V2 to V6 and taking out all of my TSRs. It still locks up sometimes. The problem is intermittant though (My PC was on for the last 3 days while I was gone and it was still going strong today). ================================================================================ Billy Barron Bitnet : BILLY@UNTVAX VAX system manager THENET : NTVAX::BILLY University of North Texas Internet : billy@vaxb.acs.unt.edu SPAN : UTSPAN::UTADNX::NTVAX::BILLY ================================================================================
CCYILAN@TECHNION.BITNET (Ilan Alter) (07/06/90)
I have tried the same PS/2 70 + 3C523 + DOS 4.01 + Packed Driver (Clarkson)
and it didn't work.
IlanUPH008@DDOHRZ11.BITNET (Wilhelm Becker) (07/06/90)
On Wed, 4 Jul 90 16:09:29 GMT Aidan Loyns said: >I have a 20MHz 386 running DOS 4.01 fitted with a 3C501 card. >Using Sun's PC-NFS produces the results I expect; however, when I try to >use any code using the packet driver (V6), the machine randomly hangs. >I've tried different ethernet cards (ne1000), but again packet driver >software hangs. > >Any ideas? >Is it worthwhile reformatting my hard disk and using Dos 3.3? > >Thanks, >Aidan Loyns I tried to run KA9Q on a AT286 with MSDOS 3.3 over 2 NE1000 cards. I had the same problem, after 3 - 5 minutes the machine hung. With WD8003 cards every- thing works. I believe that, although I have no problems running Novell IPX with NE1000 cards and packet driver, the NE1000 driver is somehow buggy. Wilhelm Becker Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, Und gruen des Lebens goldner Baum Institut fuer Physik Universitaet Dortmund Goethe, Faust I EARN: UPH008@DDOHRZ11.BITNET
ted@arsocomvax.socom.mil (Ted Nolan) (07/10/90)
In article <28881.26945cd6@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> billy@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes: > >Let me share a problem that has been plaguing people in my department which >may or may not be related. All of a sudden people on my network started >having their PCs lock up when they left for a while. > We're seeing some of this with PCNFS 3.01 and NI5210 cards, both with the Micom supplied PCNFS driver and the Clarkson packet driver + pktd.sys. Sometimes changing the shared memory address on the card helps, sometimes not. If anyone has a definitive fix, I'd be most grateful. This is happening under DOS 3.3, haven't tried 4.x yet. Since PCs are single tasking, I find the fact that this usually occurs only after being idle for a while really odd. Ted Nolan ted@usasoc.soc.mil
sysop@mixcom.UUCP (System Operator) (07/14/90)
In article <1990Jul9.210810.4055@arsocomvax.socom.mil> ted@usasoc.soc.mil (Ted Nolan) writes: >We're seeing some of this with PCNFS 3.01 and NI5210 cards, both with the >Micom supplied PCNFS driver and the Clarkson packet driver + pktd.sys. >Sometimes changing the shared memory address on the card helps, sometimes not. >If anyone has a definitive fix, I'd be most grateful. This is happening >under DOS 3.3, haven't tried 4.x yet. Since PCs are single tasking, I find >the fact that this usually occurs only after being idle for a while really odd. > > Ted Nolan > ted@usasoc.soc.mil I've been using NI5210 packet drivers for 1.5 years. I drive 1GB through them as part of an acceptance test. Thus far only the Clarkson 3.1 NI5210 driver has passed. All subsequent revisions have crashed. I have not tested the 6.x revision yet. I am using DOS 3.3 and have not determined whether the crash is caused by the packet driver or some interaction between DOS's stack(s) and the rate that interrupts occur. (DOS's message about stack overflow does not appear when the system crashes.) But thus far I have stayed with the Clarkson 3.1 revision and have been happy. Dean Roth sysop@mixcom.uucp -- Milwaukee Information eXchange (MIX), public access *NIX/Usenet MIX Communications, P.O. Box 17166, Milwaukee, WI 53217