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From: mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding)
Subject: Help! System instability.
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:40:32 GMT
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	I am trying to figure out why my system is goofing up w/ a 40
Mhz bus (AMD DX2/80).  It seems to work fine @ 33 MHz.  The symptom that
I get is that fsck reports
BAD/DUP
errors, and the blocks reported as bad are always adjacent.

I have a promise based, EIDE I/O card, a SB-16 SCSI card w/CD, and a
Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM video card.

I seem to remember some reports of problems with promise based
cards - is my memory correct?

WOuld this be a VLB problem or a memory problem?  I'd like to get it
working at 40 so I can eventually get to a 120 MHz system.