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David O'Brien wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:18:47PM -0800, Paul Allen wrote:
>  
>
>>I had experienced some issues with 5.3-Release vis-a-vis bad
>>bounce buffer panics.
>>
>>Am I correct in my read of the mailing list that 5.3-Stable
>>Resolves these issues?
>>    
>>
>
>Yes.
>  
>

I have never succeeded in getting the bge NIC on the Tyan K8W to work 
with more than 4GB of RAM in 5-stable (5.2.1 worked OK).  The system 
seems fine booting single-user with 8 GB of RAM using the twa disk 
driver, but the system locks up as soon as I do "sh /etc/netstart", at 
the point that the bge driver should print that the Ethernet link is 
established.