From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 04:45:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA21081 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 04:45:31 -0700 Received: from orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil ([158.9.11.65]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA21070 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 04:45:23 -0700 Message-Id: <199506051145.EAA21070@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA299132517; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 07:41:57 -0400 From: william pechter ILEX Subject: Re: too many sig 11's To: gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 07:41:57 -0400 (EDT) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) In-Reply-To: <26384.802350218@westhill.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Jun 5, 95 04:03:38 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1207 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > In message <199506051054.DAA18231@freefall.cdrom.com>, william pechter ILEX wri > tes: > >Looks like I get the sig 11's when trying to gunzip the cpio (root) floppy. > >It seems like there's a definite problem. > > Could you send me details of your system? > > E.g. do you have: > > a) A system with a SCSI controller (most likely Adaptec) with ISA > transfer rate turned up to high, or the ISA clock speed set wrong? Adaptec 1542B with the transfer rate at 5 and the clock speed on this machine is fixed. > > b) A system which has been found to have problems in the cache (read > the mailing list archives for details, it was recent but with all the > events recently I can't remember). You may want to try turning the 2nd > level cache mode to `write through' or off. OK... done. I'm just getting the new floppies now. There's no write through/write back on this 486... I think the cache is all write through. Bill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter |Systems Administrator | N2RDI Ilex Systems |170 Patterson Ave | Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702 908-532-2369 |pechter@sesd.ilex.com | pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil