Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 07:41:57 -0400 (EDT) From: william pechter ILEX <pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil> To: gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: too many sig 11's Message-ID: <199506051145.EAA21070@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <26384.802350218@westhill.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Jun 5, 95 04:03:38 am
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> > In message <199506051054.DAA18231@freefall.cdrom.com>, william pechter ILEX wri > tes: > >Looks like I get the sig 11's when trying to gunzip the cpio (root) floppy. > >It seems like there's a definite problem. > > Could you send me details of your system? > > E.g. do you have: > > a) A system with a SCSI controller (most likely Adaptec) with ISA > transfer rate turned up to high, or the ISA clock speed set wrong? Adaptec 1542B with the transfer rate at 5 and the clock speed on this machine is fixed. > > b) A system which has been found to have problems in the cache (read > the mailing list archives for details, it was recent but with all the > events recently I can't remember). You may want to try turning the 2nd > level cache mode to `write through' or off. OK... done. I'm just getting the new floppies now. There's no write through/write back on this 486... I think the cache is all write through. Bill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter |Systems Administrator | N2RDI Ilex Systems |170 Patterson Ave | Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702 908-532-2369 |pechter@sesd.ilex.com | pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil
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