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From: jfw@proteon.com (John Woods)
Subject: Re: Filesystem problems with NetBSD 1.0
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Keywords: SCSI SiS DX2 NetBSD1.0
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 20:47:14 GMT
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frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) writes:
>acas@etrog.citri.edu.au (Andrew Cassin) writes:
>>	We are having considerable troubles getting NetBSD 1.0 on a DX2/66 
>>	co-existing with DOS. All NetBSD related software has been ftp'ed from
>>	netbsd.rmit.edu.au. Patches 0->5 applied & installed soon after 
>>	OS install.
>>		  [ oh woe is he ]

>What you have there sounds more like a cache or memory problem to me
>than a filesystem problem. Have you tried disabling the external cache?

In fact, since he specified that his motherboard has an SiS chipset, I'll
underscore that:  my SiS chipset has an incompetant external cache, which
must be disabled for busmastered DMA to work.  Disable the external cache
and try again.  (And if it then works, see if you can trade in your
motherboard for something not designed by cementheads.)