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From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Filesystem problems with NetBSD 1.0
Date: 23 Jun 1995 09:30:31 +0200
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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Message-ID: <3sdqin$6vt@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de>
References: <3s7m9s$18r@etrog.citri.edu.au> <3s8iou$jj4@carol.fwi.uva.nl> <DALDqq.M1u@proteon.com>
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Keywords: SCSI SiS DX2 NetBSD1.0

jfw@proteon.com (John Woods) writes:
>In fact, since he specified that his motherboard has an SiS chipset, I'll
>underscore that:  my SiS chipset has an incompetant external cache, which
>must be disabled for busmastered DMA to work.  Disable the external cache

Interesting ..

I have a GA-486VF (VLB) motherboard (from Gigabyte) which works quite well.
I only had ISA SCSI controller in for two weeks or so but there it
just worked. 

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