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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
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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. ;-)