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From: mgb@geo.geol.utas.edu.au (Michael G. Brown)
Subject: Anyone using a Cyrix 486DLC?
Message-ID: <mgb.734759910@newsroom.utas.edu.au>
Summary: Anyone out there using this processor successfully?
Keywords: 486DLC cyrix problems!
Sender: news@newsroom.utas.edu.au
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 03:58:30 GMT
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Has anyone out there successfully installed 386BSD with the
Cyrix 486DLC processor?
I am just in the process of trying this, but I everything hangs
when it comes to newfs my drives.
Setup is as follows:
486DLC
Maths co-processor (Can't recall what it is)
8MB
Trident 8900 video card
NE2000 compatible ethernet card
Adaptec 1542B
2 x Seagate 11200N 1.05Gb SCSI drives
BSD 0.1 patchkit 0.2.1, original SCSI drivers
The drives seem OK - I formatted them from DOS with nary a problem.
The ethernet card is OK - I can happily NFS mount from another BSD
host. However, newfs, df and fsck (at least) hang. I used dd to copy
an image of a 20MB root partition from another box, and it boots OK but
when it reaches the fsck -p in /etc/rc - you guessed it - it hangs!.
A manual fsck gets through pass 5 before it freezes. I am about to
perform some tests - I would say at this stage it could be either a
floating point compatability problem, or something bizarre in the SCSI
driver.
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