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From: pschwenk@gypsy.wcupa.edu (Peter Schwenk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Data corruption on an ASUS P/I-P55TP4N motherboard
Date: 12 May 1996 22:42:33 GMT
Organization: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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I run FreeBSD on a P/I-P54TP4 which has the same chipset, "Triton",
without trouble.  Beyond that, I don't have much to say.

Dan Strick (dan@math.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: Immediately after installing FreeBSD on a modern pentium PC, I became
: afflicted with core dumping programs and apparent file system damage.
: Then I discovered that repeated "fsck -n" produced variable results,
: sometimes showing no file system damage at all.

: I am currently experimenting with turning off the motherboard cache
: to see if the problem goes away, but results are so far inconclusive
: since the problem is intermittent.

: Is anyone familiar with the ASUS P/I-P55TP4N motherboard and its
: foibles?  The manual says, "This motherboard features Intel's
: 430FX PCI chipsets with I/O subsystems."  Are these chipsets known
: to have problems?  What are my options?

: Thanks for any information you can provide.

: Dan Strick
: dan@math.berkeley.edu

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- Peter Schwenk, Academic Computing, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
- pschwenk@wcupa.edu
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