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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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