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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!bmtlh10.bnr.ca!bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!bmerhc5e.bnr.ca!bmerhecc!atrens From: atrens@bmerhecc.bnr.ca (Andrew Atrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: re: 2.1 crashes Date: 21 Aug 1995 01:35:02 GMT Organization: Bell Northern Research Lines: 27 Message-ID: <418ns6$suf@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bmerhecc.bnr.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, I'm far from being a guru or expert, but I noticed that in your kernel file you've commented out the following options line: # options BOUNCE_BUFFERS If you read the LINT config file it makes reference to this option as being required on machines with more than 16 MB: > # BOUNCE_BUFFERS provides support for ISA DMA on machines with more > # than 16 megabytes of memory. It doesn't hurt on other machines. > # Some broken EISA and VLB hardware may need this, too. Since you are running a Pentium with PCI this may not apply to your situation, but just the same it wouldn't hurt to try configuring this option and rebuild a fresh kernel. Hope this helps :) Cheers, Andrew ( My opinions are solely mine, and not my employers. )