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From: blkirk@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Benjamin Lee Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: ISA vs PCI bus, unknown kernel panics
Date: 3 Oct 1995 18:09:50 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
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   I've seen patches for this, but haven't heard of anyones experiences 
yet with these patches.  We have a Pentium 100 with 64Meg ram and a really
loaded scsi chain ON the isa-bus.  We were prevented from using a pci-bus
scsi card because of an apparent incompatablity with an ethernet card.
Now we have panics whenever anything gets busy on the scsi bus.  Anything
like a huge tar (backing up /usr/home) or running INN (small feeds ok) will
take the machine down.  The video is usually so freaked out that it's hard
to see the exact reason for the panic, and nothing is reflected in /var/log/*
   Any ideas/experiences about where to go with this?  I'll summurize if 
everyone remembers to send only to me :)
Thanks,
--Ben Kirkpatrick; The Pond