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From: rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Igloopatch
Keywords: serial port relief
Message-ID: <366@w3vh.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 01:39:00 GMT
References: <1058@igloo.UUCP> <364@w3vh.UUCP> <1071@igloo.UUCP>
Organization: W3VH Packet Radio Gateway, Great Barrington, MA
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In article <1071@igloo.UUCP>, learn@igloo.UUCP (william vajk) writes:
> In article <364@w3vh.UUCP>, rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem) writes:
> 
> 
> > At one time I too had a lot of double-panics; then one afternoon 
> > I got a lightning surge which took out my serial card.  On 
> > replacing it, everything worked great (these are just regular 
> > dumb serial ports).  
> 
> I believe if you had read the entire article you might have understood
> what it was really about.
> 
I certainly read the entire article and understood what it
was really about.  My point was simply that there are very
vanilla hardware configurations out here on which Microport
System V/AT works great.  That it didn't work well for you
is unfortunate, and I'm glad your fix worked out well.

To reiterate: my personal experience suggests that there is
a lot of flaky serial hardware floating around that causes
problems with Microport.  Some serial cards seem to work
fine; plug another one in and it's double panic city.  You
draw you own conclusions; personally, I haven't had a double 
panic in months.

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