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- From: cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu (Erik Berls)
- Subject: 386BSD hangs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.053221.1983@ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- Organization: California State University, Chico
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:32:21 GMT
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- I posted earlier about 386BSD crashing after 9-10 'ls -al's.
- I had listed my hardware and some symptoms and someone suggested
- that I pull out unneeded hardware to see if i could find a conflict.
- well, here is what I got:
- Hardware:
- Adaptec 1542B
- Orchid Prodesigner II
- 386-33, 8megs, has a "Chips" IC on the motherboard, I think the manual
- had something about "Star" on the top of the cover (brandname?)
- AMI Bios, not sure of the date offhand... (if you think it might make
- a difference let me know..)
-
- the other configuration i tried was removing the Orchid card and using
- just the monochrome card.
-
- well, it looked like the car didnt matter...
-
- boot info:
- pc0<mono> at 0x60 inq 1 on isa
- fd0 drive 0: 1.2M 1: 1.44M at 0x3f0 inq 6 drq 2 on isa
- as0 at 0x330 inq 11 drq 5 on isa
-
- with the orchid it had 'color' instead of 'mono'
-
- other than that i changed around the bios scratch ram area...
-
- with it grabbing 1k of memory:
- it booted, i was able to do 'ls -al' about 9-10 times then:
- 1) the system would hang
- 2) it would say Bus Error as Message and Hang
- 3) would Hang and have a bogus entry in the ls:
- ?--------- 0 0 0 Jan 1 1970 c???FEST
-
- with the other bios ram area:
- after 9-10 times of 'ls -al':
- 1) would display Memory Fault each consecutive time of trying ls -al
- 2) hang with wierd entry (see above)
- 3) wouldnt let me do a pwd:
- "cannot exec /bin/pwd" (paraphrased)
- 4) Bus Error and Hung
-
- thanks,
- -=erik.
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