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From: shin@nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Shin YOSHIMURA)
Subject: Re: mysterious system hangups (W/FIXES!)
Organization: UTnet Network Operation Center, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
In-Reply-To: lidl@rodan.UU.NET's message of 09 Aug 92 08: 33:01 JST
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>>>>> On 09 Aug 92 08:33:01 JST, lidl@rodan.UU.NET (Kurt J. Lidl) said:

kurt> Hmmm -- my machine behaved almost exactly the opposite of yours for
kurt> these two patches.  I've got an 8 meg 386+387, with 64K cache (@33 Mhz),
kurt> 1 meg et4000 vga, 105meg IDE with no-name controller, Adaptec 1542B
kurt> with Micropolis 1528 (1.4 gig scsi), and a WD8013EPT card.

1542B DMA speed should be down to 5.0MB/sec.  And maybe need Synchrous
Transfer Negotiation.  My 486DX/33 system hangs in 5.7MB/s mode even
if machdep.c patch was applyed.  But in 5.0MB and with Sync Transfer
Negotiation it doesn't hang up now.

Shin Yoshimura
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