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From: mca@ut-emx.uucp (bill spiesman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Questions about Cache
Keywords: Cache, Bios, Shadow memory
Message-ID: <40144@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 25 Nov 90 20:42:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas
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I just purchased a 486 system. I am trying to
get Xenix up and running. The box came with 
'Award BIOS 3.10' and 64K of external cache.
When I try to disable the Shadow RAM (for Xenix)
I cannot complete the setup; it complains of a
display timing error and never tries to boot.
Has anybody else run into this BIOS problem?

If I leave the shadowing enabled, I can boot,
but I later get panic - parity error after
a while. Do any of you out there with caching
machines know how the cache ought to be
configured in order to run Xenix (2.3.3)?

Bill Spiesman

spiesman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov