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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: AHA1542 hanging with FreeBSD 1.1beta
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 11:28:53 GMT
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In <2ovi70$is@packrat.vorpal.com> explorer@vorpal.com (Michael Graff) writes:
>>My systems has 16Megs. Telling the BIOS that you have 15Megs is
>>supposed to fix the problem. Problem is my BIOS (AMI) doesn't
>>seem to want to let me change that parameter.
>I have a simular problem with NetBSD-current. I was getting vm faults
>all the damn time. Turning off the external cache *seemed* to help, but
>I don't think it did anything but mask the problem.
>I know the card and 16M used to coexist... until recently.
>I believe putting ``options TUNE_1542'' helped me... Either that, or I'm
>just masking the problems once again.
As far as I understand it, the TUNE_1542 option just tweaks the speed
settings - it doesn't work on som emotherboards.
Apparently there are some problems with certain revisions of the 1542C -
I am using a 1542CF, and have had no problems.
Geoff.
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