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- From: jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
- Message-ID: <934@gdx.UUCP>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 04:24:03 GMT
- References: <926@gdx.UUCP> <1993Jan1.115712.1440@news.cs.indiana.edu>
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- In-reply-to: mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu's message of 1 Jan 93 16:57:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.115712.1440@news.cs.indiana.edu> mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires) writes:
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- > Path: gdx!frackit!wa3wbu!vogon1!psuvax1!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu
- > From: mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires)
- > Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
- > Summary: look at your memory, also
- > Date: 1 Jan 93 16:57:06 GMT
- > References: <926@gdx.UUCP>
- > Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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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.
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- If this were the problem, wouldn't it show up without the SCSI board?
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- BTW, I have 70ns 4megX9 simms.
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