Re: bogus packet size

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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Thomas Beer wrote:

> > It's a message from the driver, likely an 8390 driver.
> > It mostly likely indicates that you have a hardware fault.
> 
> But the card works properly. It only pops up after every reboot.
> Should I change the card?

If it only happens once after reboot the problem is just that the reset
circuitry isn't a faithful clone of the real 8390.

In general, the answer is "yes, you should always replace 8390 cards
with something modern".  Any modern PCI bus master will have much lower
CPU overhead.

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation		http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210		Second Generation Beowulf Clusters
Annapolis MD 21403			410-990-9993

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