On Wed, 27 Mar 96 11:24:21 EST 
 "Gordon W. Ross" <gwr@mc.com> wrote:

 > I think I may have discovered a good clue to help track down
 > the "Everything dumps core" problem.  First, I've have not
 > seen this problem on the 3/260 in ages.  Second, on the 3/60
 > the problem disappears with si_obio_options set to zero.

I'm seeing it on my 3/60 with DMA turned on, yes.  I'll see what happens 
booting into DDB and stting si_options to 0 ... (haven't been able to 
build a kernel, unfortunately...)

 > My hunch at this point is that the DMA code for OBIO is not
 > correctly waiting for transfers to finish, leaving partial
 > reads (or something like that...)

Yes, but why did it show up "all of the sudden"?  I used DMA on my 3/60 
ever since the capability was there...

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