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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!usenet From: john doe #1 <jdoe@fusion.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: freebsd and parity errors Date: 16 Jul 1995 18:13:36 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3ubksg$rmv@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: i-m-not.hip.berkeley.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) freebsd 2.0 gives me annoying parity errors quite a bit. 2.0.5 gives me them so early on in the install process that i cannot even install. none of my dos/win software seems to have a problem using the memory, and yet bsd seems to. i have 8 megs and an 8 meg swap drive, and it sometimes crashes with me doing fewer things than edit a couple of files in vi and logging in from another console. any help would be greatly appreciated.