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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
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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.