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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, brandon@glacier.cold.org,
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> Hasn't FreeBSD always handled [buggy RZ100's] without doing anything
> special?

Not for me. I've had to shut off read-aheads via the BIOS on all the
motherboards with this version of the chip.

Red Hat Linux boots with a message warning you about the problem, and shuts
off read-aheads itself.

--Brett