FDDI/9000 EISA Adapter Release Notes

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FDDI/9000 EISA Adapter Release Notes
Patches and Fixes in Version B.11.00.07
4. The fddiif utility sometimes reports
negative numbers in the statistics.
4. though the statistics are maintained
as unsigned integers by the driver,
fddiif displayed them as signed values.
5. When the locale is set and
lanadmin(1M) is used in the
interactive mode, the following error
message is displayed after a certain
number of commands are executed:
Cannot open shared library
5. The EISA FDDI lanadmin(1M)
shared library did not close the catalog
file after using it.
Table 1-7 PHNE_13395
Symptom Defect
1. Inbound data corruption is seen on
non-cache coherent systems when
UDP checksum is turned off. This
problem is observed readily on
D200/D210 systems with EISA FDDI.
1.A missing cache purge at the time
the receive buffer is set up causes stale
data to appear in the received packed.
The stale data starts at cache line
boundaries and can run to multiples of
the cache line size.
2 An underrun is seen on transmission
of every frame larger than 3000 bytes
when EISA SCSI is present.
2. When EISA SCSI is present, system
firmware automatically disables
BCLK stretching, resulting in a slight
slowdown of the EISA bus. This,
coupled with the limited bandwidth of
the EISA bus, restricts the ability of
the EISA FDDI card to DMA the
packet at the rate needed by the FDDI
network. The EISA FDDI card, by
default, sets its transmit FIFO
watermark to 2KB, which means that it
starts transmission on the FDDI
network after it has got 2 KB of data in
its FIFO. This patch increases the
watermark to the FDDI MTU (4352
bytes).
Table 1-6 PHNE_15667 (Continued)
Symptom Defect