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To: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@feephi.phofarm.com>
cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 2.0.5 ALPHA 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jun 95 13:12:26 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 12:04:47 -0700
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>As you seem to be the expert on this sort of thing, I will direct this
>your way.  I tried to install 2.0.5 ALPHA over the weekend, but encountered
>a lot of random errors including the failure of the kernel uncompressor...
>
>After talking with the hardware tech support people, they suggested that
>I turn off the RAM cache.  Which has fixed my problems.  I have a Micron
>100MHz Pentium with 16MB RAM and 512K of cache.  What do I do to allow
>me to re-enable the RAM cache?  Is there some way of changing the timing?
>What information would help you help me?

   I think the problems should be solved in the most recent set of floppies.
If be very helpful if you could try those out and see if the problem persists.

-DG