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From: jdr@magpage.com (Jim Rosemary)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: boot floppy problem
Date: 5 Dec 1996 04:14:18 GMT
Organization: The Magnetic Page [302] 651-WRLD
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Message-ID: <585i6q$1ml@tofu.alt.net>
References: <5804t1$63s@tofu.alt.net> <580ar5$f33@tofu.alt.net> <32A5D96F.1837@www.play-hookey.com>

In article <32A5D96F.1837@www.play-hookey.com>,
Ken Bigelow  <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote:
>If you're running an ISA or ISA/VLB bus, check the clock divider in the
>BIOS setup. Make sure that the ISA bus does not exceed 8.00000 MHz by
>even a little bit. Actually, most peripherals will run at, say, 8.333,
>but there are some that won't. When the data throughput becomes high,
  Setting "I/O recovery time" to 12 BCLK's eliminates the CRC problem,
but the installation still fails. If I do not disable drivers for
things I don't have, things work as one would expect. If I disable
things, the installation hangs at the "Welcome to FreeBSD" screen.
I suspect the hardware, as it had problems under Linux that the
old board did not have.