Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!east!hinode!geoff From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: PC/NFS destroys files ?? Keywords: PC NFS data corruption Message-ID: <877@east.East.Sun.COM> Date: 28 Sep 89 16:25:53 GMT References: <523@nixpbe.UUCP> <46100@bbn.COM> Sender: news@east.East.Sun.COM Reply-To: geoff@East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Billerica MA Lines: 22 In article <523@nixpbe.UUCP> freiss@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Freiss) writes: > >Hi, >we have problems with PC/NFS. All of our PC's lose data or get garbled >packets from time to time - we don't even get an errormessage when this >happens. >[...] >Configuration: > PC with SUN PC/NFS 3.0.1, DOS 3.3, WD8003E board This looks like the same problem that Bob Clements mentioned in <46100@bbn.COM>, "Ethernet cards, PC/NFS, DS8390". As he suggests, you may want to check the rev code on the DS8390 chip on the WD8003E. (Bob had trouble with rev 8742C4, fixzed with rev 8824.) I'll follow this up myself. Geoff Geoff Arnold, Internet: geoff@East.Sun.COM PCDS Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love standards: de facto, de jure, de gustibus, de lusionary, de credo...