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Re: Lockups with aha1542cf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kai Harrekilde-Petersen)
Mon Mar 20 12:05:48 1995
From: Kai Harrekilde-Petersen <khp@pip.dknet.dk>
To: paul@rasty.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 15:50:49 +0100 (MET)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux SCSI mailing list)
In-Reply-To: <199503200031.AA06331@rasty.anu.edu.au> from "Paul Gortmaker" at Mar 20, 95 10:31:21 am
Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Kai wrote:
> > Motherboard: ISA, 486DLC/33, Cyrix Cx387 and 8Mb RAM.
>
> You might get the cyrix-1.00.tar.gz package, and play with the cache
> settings of your DLC. These chips really don't have any way of knowing
> what addresses were touched by DMA xfers, and have to flush the cache
> to be safe if there was a DMA event. Mind you, I would have thought that
> this would create problems with the disk as well, but.... ?
Well, the motherboard is supposedly `Cyrix-aware', and will program the
special Cyrix registers automatically (I get 13.21 BogoMips). Anyway, i'll
give it a chance. Do you by any chance know where I can find the package?
Kai
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