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From: bob prohaska <bob@cloverleaf.its.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help - 386 & AHA-1542B ?
Date: 15 Apr 1997 04:35:45 GMT
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Brian Somers <brian@shift.utell.net> wrote:
> > possibility is that the 1542B has problems under FreeBSD. Is anyone
> > using this (old) card successfully?

> I used to, but eventually the card died.  I'd be very surprised if there
> were any problems with this card.  Perhaps one of the SIMMs in the box
> is bad ?  You could try disabling the cache too.

I'm using a 1542B as I write this 8-) Works fine, always has.
The suggestion to disable cache is a good one; some MBs don't 
correctly handle cache.

bob