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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Argh! 386BSD dies after a dozen or so commands! Date: 9 Sep 92 14:06:28 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 48 Message-ID: <veit.716047588@du9ds3> References: <1992Sep09.023506.16724@ecst.csuchico.edu> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Keywords: 386bsd Memory Fault In <1992Sep09.023506.16724@ecst.csuchico.edu> cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu (Erik Berls) writes: >Im having a little problem with 386BSD, >after booting off of either the dist.fs or the fixit.fs it only allows >me so many commands before it starts spitting back in my face. >The easiest way to replicate the situation is to do a ls -al. >That works for about 13 times, after that it Memory Faults. >The computer science part of me says that something is not getting cleaned up. >But it works fine on my roomates system (booting up, can do the ls -al 15-20 >times without a problem, didnt try anymore after that.) >My system: >Adaptec 1542B SCSI Controller. >Orchid Prodesigner II >Sound Blaster Pro >Compudyne Internal 2400 baud modem >a no-name multi-io card (2s1p1g) >a no-name monocrome card >and the motherboard is a 386DX-33 (Intel) 8 megs of RAM >as for brand name, it has a chip on the motherboard that says "CHIPS" >but i seem to remember a manual that had the correct jumper configs that said >"Star" on it, >The motherboard can hold 16Megs, 8 on board, another 8 on an memory expansion >board. >(The abundance of motherboard info is to aid anyone in identifieing it.) >AMI Bios. >thanks, >-=erik. General hint: remove all the unnecessary or unsupported cards, i.e. sound blaster (might conflict with multi-I/O, although mine does not afflict operation, might also conflict with Adaptec DMA) internal modem card (might conflict with IRQ's from serial I/O) monochrome card (might conflict with orchid) and try again. Since DOS handles the hardware in a different way (does not rely on IRQ and DMA for many of the cards), the present configuration might work well here, but fails with 386bsd). Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"