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- From: risner@ms.uky.edu (James Risner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: 386 bsd 0.1 problem = too much ram OR bad mother board?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.13919.4818@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 05:39:19 GMT
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- I have a 486, 2 IDE HDs, 1.44, CGA, 2 serial, and 32 meg ram.
- My machine continually HANGS while accessing the HD.
- My machine would not install correctly. Ran perfectly until it got
- to the "Installing files from installation floppy." and then all disk
- access halts, and its locked = only ctrl-alt-del or reset works.
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- I took all the cards in the 486 and replaced them with a 386-25 & 8 meg ram
- and managed to install the os on the HD the first time. Now I can boot
- 386bsd on the 486 (after returning the cards) but often while accessing
- the HD, I lock the machine up...Say you run something in the bg & and
- go off to do other things... When disk activity stops so do you.
- The whole system halts... BUT sometimes data buffered up for writes to disk
- get written back out to disk a few seconds after the lock up.
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- Any clues from anyone on the best way to track down the problem?
- I have recompiled the kernel with a printf for each wd.c function call
- before I moved the controller to another machine and it worked fine.
- Makes me think it is no longer the controller...
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- Risner
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