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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: panic during extract Date: 2 May 1994 16:51:03 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2q3b1n$men@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2psi93$anl@news.service.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 Keywords: page fault kernel panic In article <2psi93$anl@news.service.uci.edu>, bob prohaska <rprohask@uci.edu> wrote: >Hi all, > >Having got 1.1-gamma to run at 33 MHz on a vlb system (with lots of >help!) I'm now trying to make the system work at 50 MHz and running >into trouble: I know that VLB was originally spec'd at 50Mhz, but from comments I've heard on other mailing lists and newsgroups nobody runs it past 40Mhz due to timing problems. I suspect some of your VLB cards (all of them?) can't run at 50Mhz. >The system is a 486DX-50, 16M RAM, OPTi 495slc chipset, >256k cache running with BIOS defaults on the motherboard. Also, if the chip is the Cyrix chip then it could be problem as well as I don't think FreeBSD correctly handles it as it is not 100% Intel compatible. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.