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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!think.com!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!gemini.oscs.montana.edu!osynw From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: does the UMC chipset work with 386BSD? Message-ID: <1992Nov15.211214.17546@coe.montana.edu> Keywords: n Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Montana State University References: <49432@shamash.cdc.com> <2399@adagio.lemis.uucp> <38855@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:12:14 GMT Lines: 34 >>In article <49432@shamash.cdc.com> pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas x4629) writes: >>>Has anyone heard of the UMC chipset? >> >>Well, I have just removed a 486/50 with UMC from my machine, and gone >>back to a 486/33 using an OPTI chip set. Nothing else changed - I had >>a different 486/33 OPTI board (same design, though) in there before. >>I'm running BSD/386. >> >>The OPTI board ran with no problems since March, and I installed the >>UMC board last week. On average, it crashed 5 times a day. This could >>be a defective board, of course, but I didn't have another board to >>compare it with. >> Well, I have been running a UMC board since day one that 0.1 came out, and I have been very pleased. Until I brought my machine onto the local campus network, it was VERY stable, with uptimes of weeks. However, with the added load of NFS, remote logins and such, it hasn't been quite a stable, but I doubt very much that my chipset has anything to do with it. Machine: 486/33 - 16MB memory UMC chipset Aha 1542B ... Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | A hacker w/out a home. work: (406) 994-5991 | Keeper of the Unofficial 386BSD Bug Report home: (406) 586-0579 | Please send bugs and/or fixes you find.