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Subject: Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?) 
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In message <20030508142234.GA1359@laptop.6bone.nl>, Mark Santcroos writes:

>They prevent the usage of 4M pages. It's a CPU bug that will cause data
>corruption if enabled.
>
>Terry Lambert (at least) knows the details.

I _really_ doubt that.

Please treat all information from Terry as highly suspect, he has not
been in touch with our source code for years.

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