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- From: "Michael Squires" <mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.115712.1440@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Summary: look at your memory, also
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
- References: <926@gdx.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 11:57:06 -0500
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- In article <926@gdx.UUCP> jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder) writes:
- >
- >
- >When I use it under SCO Xenix (2.3.2GT + UFN + xnx339), everything
- >works fine until I load X (Roell's -- ported by Per Linquist). Then
- >it crashes within minutes.
- >
- >This is also the case with non-GT Xenix on the same board (which is
- >non-scsi, and in theory, shouldn't even try to access the board).
-
- This suggests that you have memory problems, caused either by marginal
- SIMMs or a motherboard with ringing/noise on the memory bus. In either
- case only substitution will find the problem if this is true.
-
- I've never found a diagnostic package that would test things as well
- as just booting and installing SCO UNIX.
-
- --
-
- Mike Squires (mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) 812 855 3974 (w) 812 333 6564 (h)
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