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To: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@feephi.phofarm.com>
cc: davidg@root.com, 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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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 17:10:16 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> 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?

What happens if you keep the cache disabled during the install but
then turn it back on when it's time to reboot from the hard disk?  At
that point you're no longer running the gzip'd / MFS'd kernel and
it would be _very_ enlightening to know if the problems still
persisted.

					Jordan