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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:51:53 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available
Message-ID:  <20031002095153.GB5190@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031001184433.O74468@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20030929151905.GD3743@freebsdmall.com> <m3u16s5u7s.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <20031001184433.O74468@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003, Doug White wrote:

> > 2. at some point in time, usually around "Remaking all devices", the
> >    machine throws a handful of segfaults and boom. I'm unsure whether
> >    this might be the hardware, it's an old Cyrix MII/233 (PR300) Super7
> >    CPU in a VIA MVP3 board (PCChips M577), 32 MB PC66 + 64 MB PC100 RAM
> >    (66 MHz FSB), nothing "server-class", but it seems to be fine even
> >    under load with SuSE Linux 8.1 or 8.2 (dual-boot).
> 
> This tends to imply hardware issues.  What kind of storage?

If Linux showed weird behaviour as well, I would not have reported this.

I'll let memtest run now to see if everything is smooth.

Storage: Local single ATA harddisk (IBM DTLA type), UDMA33, short (15"
or something) 40-pin cable, local ATAPI CD-ROM (old 36X Pioneer, using
multiword DMA with Linux).



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