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Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI

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From: Michael Squires
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 16:57
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In article <926@gdx.UUCP> jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder) writes:
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>When I use it under SCO Xenix (2.3.2GT + UFN + xnx339), everything
>works fine until I load X (Roell's -- ported by Per Linquist).  Then
>it crashes within minutes.
>
>This is also the case with non-GT Xenix on the same board (which is
>non-scsi, and in theory, shouldn't even try to access the board).

This suggests that you have memory problems, caused either by marginal
SIMMs or a motherboard with ringing/noise on the memory bus.  In either
case only substitution will find the problem if this is true.

I've never found a diagnostic package that would test things as well
as just booting and installing SCO UNIX.

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From: "Michael Squires" <mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
Message-ID: <1993Jan1.115712.1440@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Summary: look at your memory, also
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 11:57:06 -0500
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