At 1:07 PM -0700 10/1/98, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, greg walsh wrote:
>
>> At 6:44 PM -0700 on 09/30/98, Bob Nestor wrote:
>>
>> >In the off chance that it is the same bug, you might try physically
>> >disconnecting any serial devices from the Serial Ports before booting
>> >NetBSD.  If this does fix the problem for you it would be extrememly
>> >helpful if you could let us know what version of NetBSD you're running
>> >and what serial device was causing the problem.
>>
>> !! That solved it !!  Thanks Everybody!!
>>
>> I'm running the CD ROM release of 1.3.2, on an 840av.  I've got three
>> partitions on a 500MB Quantum.  The offending serial device was a Epson
>> Stylus 800.  I pulled the serial plug, rebooted and everything came up.
>>
>> #Is this the fix, or is this solving a different problem?
>
>This problem is a different one. It is not, AFAIK, fixed in NetBSD 1.3.2.
>Hopefully it will be fixed in 1.3.3, though no date for that has been set.
>
>The problem is with the Epson. It is sending a clock signal to the
>computer, which the computer is not expecting.
>

Is this the problem which that patch you sent me fixes, Dr. Bill?

If so it is available in
ftp://macbsd.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/users/hotz/patchz8530.  If you don't want to
compile a custom kernel with the patch you can download the netbsd.hotz5
kernel in the same directory.

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