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From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: PowerPorts error message
Summary: call 'em
Keywords: PowerPorts, Error, failed
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.235805.23793@informix.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 23:58:05 GMT
References: <1990Dec11.185134.28919@DMI.USherb.CA>
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In article <1990Dec11.185134.28919@DMI.USherb.CA> beauchem@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Denis Beauchemin) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>On one of our client's machine we often get the folloging message:
>
>Restart PowerPorts Software Card 1
>Powerload: Error(6): ioctl (on reset)
>Failed!
>
>The system runs fine (even after the error message), but it annoys them (and
>us!).  Would someone have an explanation for it?
>
>The card is an AT&T PowerPorts with 8 lines.  The software version of the
>driver is 6.3 and the computer is a 6386/25 MHz....

Sounds suspicious.  Did you ask Consensys about it?  I've been running
6 6386E/33's with the 16-port versions of the same card without a burp
for almost a year.  (Mostly, with version 5.1 of the software; I just
upgraded to version 6.32 with no problems thus far).

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