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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sig 11 probs
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 12:41:24 -0800
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To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>

John Goerzen wrote:
> I'm still having some problems with Sig 11's appearing randomly in FreeBSD
> and I doubt that it is a bad hardware problem.

Ha ha - not so fast, bucko..  Have you tried running with both caches
disabled?  If the Sig11's go away, it was hardware.

If they go away, try turning off just the external and enable the
internal cache.  Juggle as necessary to isolate the failing component.

> - AT bus speed.  Has options like CLK/6 and CLK/5.

Put this at the standard 7Mhz rate.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project