> At work, I get this one from time to time. It *appears* to be > the IDE controller and a flaky caching chipset. In this case, > I won't rule out a memory caching problem on the motherboard either > (usually shows up on machine with >16megs RAM).
Hmm, ok. This machine has 32 megs of RAM on it. Perhaps I should try pulling a 16 meg simm. > My suggestion > would be to get a nice and *plain* $50 IDE controller (ISA or VL) and > try it. If you get seg. faults still, then I'd be taking > a closer look at the motherbaord. That is what we had in the first place, an el-cheapo IDE controller. I'll look at it again. Thank you for the advice! > Another thought, *disable* the caching on the IDE controller. > You could cancel out the DMA since I doubt the card will > use DMA in that state. Anyway, I'd be interested in your > experiences. I dunno how to do this. :) Jim
