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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Strange new errors with 32mb upgrade Date: 15 Jul 1996 00:25:50 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4sc36e$d3l@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4sbhat$q7c@skydiver.jagunet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E emerys@confucius.omniscient.com (Sean Emery) wrote: > Hello all, I have been getting several strange effects after adding some > memory to my system. (total of 48mb now.) > > First thing I noticed is that vi (and it's derivitives nvi, etc.) and talk > would core dump upon invocation. reboot fixed. You've got an Adaptec 154X? options "BOUNCE_BUFFERS" (in the kernel config file) is your friend. Of course, you need to take out the additional 32 MB in order to recompile the kernel, or you can boot /kernel.GENERIC which does have bounce buffers. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)