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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
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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