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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Still trying to install...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.012227.13456@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <1993Jan20.075418.26319@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan21.092014.15598@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 01:22:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.092014.15598@Princeton.EDU> bkc@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Caruthers) writes:
- >> i486/40 ISA, 8MB RAM, 44.7 MB Seagate ST-157A IDE
- >> Microid Research BIOS (MR BIOS)
- >
- >Okay, I finally got things to boot (now I can go get the rest of the system)
- >What I had to do:
- > Disable external cache
- > Set cold-boot delay to 1 second or greater
- >
- >While I am glad I can get it to work, this is somewhat annoying that I have to
- >disable the cache. Also, I would like to know _why_ these were problems?
-
- Most likely, the cache overlays an area used for a disk I/O. This is a
- *terrible* problem with bus-mastering DMA controllers (not a "problem"
- suffered by IDE, I think).
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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