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Date:      04 Jul 1999 10:50:37 -0400
From:      Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
To:        Robert Sowders <rsowders@usgs.gov>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, a.genkin@utoronto.ca
Subject:   Re: solved (was: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486)
Message-ID:  <87yagwpiyq.fsf@main.wgaf.net>
In-Reply-To: Robert Sowders's message of "Sun, 04 Jul 1999 01:32:28 -0700"
References:  <s77eb9bd.007@usgs.gov>

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Robert Sowders <rsowders@usgs.gov> writes:

> Sorry, I could have saved you some time, had I read my email.
> 
> There is a bios setting for enabling the internal cache, yours was
> apparently off.  
> Curios, the default is on, wonder how it switched off?

Well I remember I was fooling around with BIOS settings at some point, 
when I installed 2 ethernet cards and was trying to determine the
speed ISA bus was running at...

> >>> Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> 7/3/99 12:16:36 AM >>>
> Thank you again to everyone who responded to my problem. It eventually 
> solved when I loaded BIOS defaults. I don't know for sure what the
> problem was, but I think that it had something to do with cache,
> because now it says "Cache 256Kb" at boot-up, and it didn't previously.

-- 
Arcady Genkin
"... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate
of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)


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