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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 1997 00:06:40 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Another installment of the "dup alloc"/"bad dir" panic problems.
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970302000640.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199703012227.PAA05697@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mar 1, 1997 15:27:15 -0700
References:  <199703012227.PAA05697@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> >  So, now the question I'm considering is "what could be some
> > timing dependent that it affects both IDE and SCSI drivers?"
> 
> 1542B?
> 
> How much RAM do you have?
> 
> If you have more than 16M ... it's bouncing.  Try backing down to
> 16M and not bouncing and see if that's where it is...

Moot point, try again.  I have seen it on a 1542A with 8 MB of RAM.
Heikki has experienced it on his news servers, which are much larger
machines that certainly don't suffer from ISA bus braindeadness (in
this respect).

No, if it were that simple, we'd be happy.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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