home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unidui!du9ds3!veit
- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Argh! 386BSD dies after a dozen or so commands!
- Date: 9 Sep 92 14:06:28 GMT
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
- Lines: 48
- Message-ID: <veit.716047588@du9ds3>
- References: <1992Sep09.023506.16724@ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- Keywords: 386bsd Memory Fault
-
- In <1992Sep09.023506.16724@ecst.csuchico.edu> cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu (Erik Berls) writes:
-
- >Im having a little problem with 386BSD,
- >after booting off of either the dist.fs or the fixit.fs it only allows
- >me so many commands before it starts spitting back in my face.
- >The easiest way to replicate the situation is to do a ls -al.
- >That works for about 13 times, after that it Memory Faults.
- >The computer science part of me says that something is not getting cleaned up.
- >But it works fine on my roomates system (booting up, can do the ls -al 15-20
- >times without a problem, didnt try anymore after that.)
-
- >My system:
- >Adaptec 1542B SCSI Controller.
- >Orchid Prodesigner II
- >Sound Blaster Pro
- >Compudyne Internal 2400 baud modem
- >a no-name multi-io card (2s1p1g)
- >a no-name monocrome card
- >and the motherboard is a 386DX-33 (Intel) 8 megs of RAM
- >as for brand name, it has a chip on the motherboard that says "CHIPS"
- >but i seem to remember a manual that had the correct jumper configs that said
- >"Star" on it,
- >The motherboard can hold 16Megs, 8 on board, another 8 on an memory expansion
- >board.
- >(The abundance of motherboard info is to aid anyone in identifieing it.)
- >AMI Bios.
-
- >thanks,
- >-=erik.
-
- General hint: remove all the unnecessary or unsupported cards, i.e.
- sound blaster (might conflict with multi-I/O, although mine does not afflict
- operation, might also conflict with Adaptec DMA)
- internal modem card (might conflict with IRQ's from serial I/O)
- monochrome card (might conflict with orchid)
- and try again.
-
- Since DOS handles the hardware in a different way (does not rely on IRQ and
- DMA for many of the cards), the present configuration might work well here,
- but fails with 386bsd).
-
- Holger
-
- --
- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO
- | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are
- | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"
-