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Article #14066

Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI

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From: Jay Snyder
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 04:24
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In article <1993Jan1.115712.1440@news.cs.indiana.edu> mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires) writes:

  > Path: gdx!frackit!wa3wbu!vogon1!psuvax1!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu
  > From: mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires)
  > Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
  > Summary: look at your memory, also
  > Date: 1 Jan 93 16:57:06 GMT
  > References: <926@gdx.UUCP>
  > Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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  > 
  > In article <926@gdx.UUCP> jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder) writes:
  > >
  > >
  > >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.

If this were the problem, wouldn't it show up without the SCSI board?

BTW, I have 70ns 4megX9 simms.
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From: jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
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Date: 3 Jan 93 04:24:03 GMT
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