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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Embarrassing problem re: ed0
To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 03:01:20 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199509220709.AAA10470@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Sep 22, 95 00:09:22 am
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After all sorts of tests
I can pretty much prove the MB is f*cked..

SMC's diags fail on it from dos..
on any number of their cards....

thanks to those that made suggestions!

julian

> 
> 
> I promissed a friend
> "Sure we can put freeBSD on your spare system quicker than you would imagine"
> 
> 3 hours later..
> 
> I have tried 2 SMC elite  (8013)
> and one 3c503 that runs as ed0 on my pentium here..
> 
> the machine is a pentium 60 (as is mine)
> brand unknown, made in IRELAND (!)
[...]
> I've tried the machine with the cache off and in NON_TURBO mode..
> that seems to be all there is to adjust on this thing..
> no bus speed or anything..
> 
> julian
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