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- From: linda@cs.su.oz.au (Linda Distributed Language)
- Subject: Re: CMOS erasure problem w/ 486s and Linux
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 12:54:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <linda.724251296@minnie>
- References: <101726@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.su.oz.au (News)
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- I don't have any solutions, but I have noticed something really bizzarre:
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- I have access to a lab of 486s. I ran linux on a total of three of them.
- The all have an AMI bios and they all have the same bios date, so I assume they
- are the same bios. Is there a software way to find out if they are the same?
- Anyway, 2 of them had the problem, the other didn't. The one that didn't have
- the problem is as follows:
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- 486-33
- 4Mb ram
- 1.2 & 1.44 Mb fd
- 40Mb IDE drive
- ET4000 1MB video
-
- The other two were identical:
-
- 486-33
- 4Mb ram
- 1.44 Mb fd
- 40Mb SCSI, vendor NEC
- Future Domain TMC950 controller
- Trident 1Mb video
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- I can't open up the machines to check any further details since they are public
- machines, but apart from that I can do much as I want with one of the scsi
- machines. The other one died - I think its hard drive blew up. The IDE one no
- longer has linux installed and now doesn't have any space to install it.
- Does this help anybody?
-
- David Monro
-