I'm doing some development on an instrument where communication between the linux box and the some remote electronics is via this specialized PCI serial fiber card. The PCI card really sucks, it's not exactly a custom board, not exactly a production quality board. Some PCs won't boot with with the card in, with others there is a variable degree of flakiness.
The card is built around a Motorola DSP, and as I'm doing development and testing my code the, the DSP code will freeze up, and the board seems to freeze up the PCI bus as well, and pretty much stomp the computer into a state of unnatural stillness, basically it dies a quick death. And then I cycle power. Woohoo! I have had Linux installs in the past which eventually took the long sleep from being cold booted too many times, but the newer distros seem pretty resilient. Still, the machine is dying and being restarted many times per day, sometimes many times per hour, as I tinker with the DSP code on the board trying to fix the problem. Any idears on how many times I might be able to get away with before the whole system burns up? -Charles _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
