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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!rex!ben From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) Subject: DMA problem under DOS? Message-ID: <CJuEzo.8xJ@rex.uokhsc.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 20:45:23 GMT Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma Lines: 17 I doubt this is related but I thought I would post it anyway... I know somebody with a 386DX-25 w/8MB of DRAM (1MB SIMMS 60 or 70ns SIMMS I think) on an AMI motherboard running DOS 5.0. There are two floppy drives: 1 3.5" and 1 5.25". Strange problem: at random times when saving to the floppy (either of them I think but definitely the 3.5") the machine crashes with "PARITY ERROR". I have to talk to the people some more but it may only happen when they are connected to the network (it happened when they were using a Dlink-150 and now with a Dlink-220). [I tired re-seating the DRAMs and playing with various timings in the CMOS config...just thought I bring it up because they mentioned it just recently and this topic came up once again ;-)] -- Benjamin Z. Goldsteen