Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekfdi!!toddc From: toddc@.TV.TEK.COM (Todd Carlson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Clarkson BYU & WD8003e Problem? (Addendum) Message-ID: <5264@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM> Date: 25 Feb 91 17:48:05 GMT References: <30465@usc> <5255@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM> Sender: news@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM Reply-To: toddc@amati.TV.TEK.COM (Todd Carlson) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 31 >In article <5255@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM> toddc@.TV.TEK.COM (Todd Carlson) writes: > >> We are having a problem where several PC's that have WD8003e cards >> lock-up at random times; they are running the Clarkson BYU Packet driver. >> >> These PC's are linked to the fileserver by a T1 line, and there are >> PC's with the same configuration at the same location as the fileserver >> that have not had any problems. > >............. Perhaps you >could try a different Ethernet card? [translation: all Ethernet >controllers have bugs, perhaps invoking different bugs might help] Are >you using the 8.x release? [translation: get them to go away and get >the latest version [but seriously, this worked the last two times I >tried it]]. > We have tried using different ethernet cards (3Com 503's and Sytek 16bit), but they have not reproduced the same error. I guess I will try your suggestion of throwing another fileserver on the same side of the T1 link, and if that doesn't work, apply at Burger King. Thanks. ********************************************************************* Todd Carlson | "Soon the Gypsie Queen, toddc@amati.TV.TEK.COM | in a glaze of Vaseline, Computer Resources Coordinator | will perform on guillotine. TV Division, Tektronix Inc. | What a scene, what a scene." ********************************************************************** Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com