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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!wupost!uwm.edu!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!serval!poly2!hlu From: hlu@poly2.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Fixed: Runs at 8MHz, Crashes at 33MHz, 386bsd Keywords: bug Message-ID: <1992Sep12.215325.2451@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: 12 Sep 92 21:53:25 GMT Article-I.D.: serval.1992Sep12.215325.2451 References: <1992Sep8.070731.21159@bernina.ethz.ch> <1992Sep11.200736.20247@qualcomm.com> <1992Sep12.134712.17755@news.cs.indiana.edu> Sender: hlu@poly2 (H.J. Lu) Organization: Washington State University Lines: 24 In article <1992Sep12.134712.17755@news.cs.indiana.edu>, "Michael Squires" <mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes: |> When running SCO XENIX 386 and UNIX 386 on various clones it became clear that |> all brands of clone were not alike and all brands of memory were not alike. |> In some cases I know that there were problems with the memory bus caused by |> poor design or unreliable DRAM. I personally would not try to run 386 UNIX |> on a really cheap motherboard, unless I'd already tested in some other way |> (and the Checkit/AMIDIAG type of tester doesn't stress the hardware enough |> to find the problems). |> |> I wonder if there is a program that is small enough to fit on the boot disk |> which would really stress memory which could be used to test prospective |> clones in the store or at the hamfest/computerfest/Trenton/Dayton Hamvention? |> |> -- |> |> Mike Squires (mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) 812 855 3974 (w) 812 333 6564 (h) |> mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu 546 N Park Ridge Rd., Bloomington, IN 47408 Get the lastest bootimage and rootimage for Linux. I was told it was a very good testing program. It just takes two disks. In the rootimage, there are quite a few Unix stuffs. It has almost every basic stuff, except for gcc 2.2.2. H.J.