Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!umdac!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.uni-c.dk!diku.dk!phantom From: phantom@diku.dk (Haktan Bulut) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Data corruption on an ASUS P/I-P55TP4N motherboard Date: 15 May 1996 11:46:22 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen Lines: 26 Sender: phantom@vidar.diku.dk Message-ID: <4ncg6e$ol1@vidar.diku.dk> References: <4mvvst$5jf@agate.berkeley.edu> <4n3s10$b2h@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: vidar.diku.dk X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #13 wungyea@vickie.ee.nsysu.edu.tw (wungyea) writes: >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. Make sure that if you are running with 100Mhz, 133Mhz or 166Mhz that you have 60ns (or at least some good quality 70ns) RAM. This might be your problem. Haktan -- Haktan Bulut - phantom@diku.dk