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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD hangs
Message-ID: <DyxJ7y.7Jq.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <32560E04.3163@www.play-hookey.com> <536erv$8kl@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> <kientzleDytz0y.K7L@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 23:43:10 GMT
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In article <kientzleDytz0y.K7L@netcom.com> kientzle@netcom.com writes:
>I had a similar problem when I first installed FreeBSD, which I finally
>solved by changing the cache settings in the CMOS.  I changed it from
>`write back' to `write through.'  System was rock-solid after that.

Presumably you know this, but some systems require both a jumper and
a BIOS setting for write-through/back.  It shouldn't matter which way
you set them, but you have to be consistent!

-- Richard
-- 
"Nothing can stop me now... except microscopic germs"