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Subject: Re: Stable as bad with Adaptec as NCR
To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:59:56 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199603291613.DAA27473@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from michael butler at "Mar 30, 96 03:13:22 am"
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> Marc G. Fournier writes:
> 
> > 	Anyone care to make suggestions on maybe options I should turn on
> > in the kernel?  This morning, less then 24hrs since last reboot, the system
> > froze with a SCSI bus hang...again :( (hard drive LED on bright red)
> 
>  [ .. ]
> 
> > CPU: i486 DX4 (486-class CPU)
> >   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x480  Stepping=0
> >   Features=0x3<FPU,VME>
> > real memory  = 16777216 (16384K bytes)
> > avail memory = 14692352 (14348K bytes)
> > Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> > chip0 <SiS 85c496> rev 49 on pci0:5
> 
> This is a CPU with a write-back-capable L1 cache. Mine is an AMD without
> this ability.

The Id=0x480 is not a write back enhanced chip, the 0x470 is.



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