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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: Am I having Mother Board problems? (long)
Organization: Private Site, Member of Individual Network e. V.
Message-ID: <DHz7DC.CG@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
References: <480g74$s8o@central.ro.com> <30A60969.2CAC87E8@freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 09:51:11 GMT
Lines: 51
In article <30A60969.2CAC87E8@freebsd.org>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>This *definitely* points to a bad motherboard, bad cache or bad memory.
Jordan, IMO it is _not_ !
I have similar problems and they are drive depending.
My FreeBSD adventure started a while ago. My PC was a 386DX-40 with
128 K cache and 8 meg RAM, Adaptec 1542B SCSI host adapter, Trident 8900
based 1 meg graphics adapter, WD8013 compatible network adapter, some
serial and parallel ports. I have a Toshiba XM3401B CD-ROM, Wangtek
5150ES tape, there was a Rodime 210 meg drive, a Maxtor 245 meg drive
and a Seagate ST41200N (about 1 gig, 5.25" FH.)
I had problems like those described in the source posting and no-one
was able to explain why. Even Joerg had no idea :-)
Since then the following changed:
- I replaced the motherboard. I have now a Soyo board, 486DX2-66,
with 4 meg RAM on one PS/2 SIMM and 4 meg on 1 meg standard
SIMMs.
- I replaced the Rodime disk because it died.
- I replaced the complete memory by one 16 meg PS/2 SIMM.
It still appears.
I believe it's a problem of that Seagate disk (it's firmware still
tells me that it was made by Imprimis) but I wonder how CRCs can be
correct and why FreeBSD doesn't take any notice.
This points to a bad motherboard, bad cache or bad memory.
But not *definitely*
I am very satisfied with FreeBSD and we're using it as a CD-ROM
server (with NFS and Samba) on our network, for two routers and
there is my private machine. In our company's network we don't
have those problems.
Bye,
Martin
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