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From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,fido.unix
Subject: Re: Kernel panic w/heavy disk I/O (ISC)
Summary: phantom kernel parms
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.021228.19501@informix.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 02:12:28 GMT
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In article <1991Feb19.134450.6095@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>...
>chances are your motherboard isn't compatible with the DMA on the
>Adaptec 1542B --  Did you run the DMA test under DEBUG (using DOS)
>on the 1542B?
>
>another issue is the DMASPEED and BUSSON/BUSSOFF paramaters in
>the kernel --
>   Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287 (HST/PEP/V.32/v.42bis)

Am I *blind*?  I've got TFM right in front of me, and the only DMA- or
bus-related parm I can find is DMAEXCL... where did you find out about
DMASPEED and BUSS*?   (or were these pre-2.2?)

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Alan Denney      aland@informix.com      {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland

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