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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!news.csie.nctu.edu.tw!vickie.ee.nsysu.edu.tw!wungyea From: wungyea@vickie.ee.nsysu.edu.tw (wungyea) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Data corruption on an ASUS P/I-P55TP4N motherboard Date: 12 May 1996 05:13:04 GMT Organization: Dept. Comp. Sci. & Info. Eng., Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4n3s10$b2h@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> References: <4mvvst$5jf@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: wungyea%@vickie.ee.nsysu.edu.tw X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Dan Strick (dan@math.berkeley.edu) wrote: : Immediately after installing FreeBSD on a modern pentium PC, I became : afflicted with core dumping programs and apparent file system damage. : Then I discovered that repeated "fsck -n" produced variable results, : sometimes showing no file system damage at all. : I am currently experimenting with turning off the motherboard cache : to see if the problem goes away, but results are so far inconclusive : since the problem is intermittent. : Is anyone familiar with the ASUS P/I-P55TP4N motherboard and its : foibles? The manual says, "This motherboard features Intel's : 430FX PCI chipsets with I/O subsystems." Are these chipsets known : to have problems? What are my options? : Thanks for any information you can provide. : Dan Strick : dan@math.berkeley.edu I have using such MB with Intel Pentium-150 and 2 IDE Harddisk and 2 SCSI HD and 16MB EDO ram which install Freebsd 2.1 ,nothing wrong wungyea@vickie.ee.nsysu.edu.tw