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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: extracting binary and source distributions
Date: 8 Feb 94 04:42:32
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 3 Feb 1994 17:10:19 PST
In article <2is79r$q4s@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
* >as /tmp/tar skipping to next file header. I say randomly because if I
* This is generally a symptom of a deeper (hardware) problem. Try disabling
* your external cache and doing the same thing.
Yes, I also had this before on my no-name 386DX-40 system. Tried
disabling cache, swapping simms, to no avail. Managed to extract the
distribution after many tries, and got seg faults from various
programs (most notably cc1).
Everything went away when I upgraded to a 486DX2-66.
By the way, I have heard from other people that had the same problem,
and they all said they had to swap motherboards to make it work at
all. Has anybody got it to work by disabling caches?
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Satoshi