Re: Something scribbles over memory in 2.3.18 (maestro?)

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:19:25 +0200 (MEST)


Pavel Machek wrote:

> diff emacs emacs-working
> 1740801 310 M-H 4 ^D
> 1740802 300 M-@ 40
[...]
> I'm using maestro driver, which is marked experimental. Does it ring
> any bells?

This looks like a classical bit-error in the IDE cable error. Try
using shorter IDE cables, reducing speed (i.e. dropping one DMA-or-PIO
level) on the IDE bus.

Or your memory is bad.

Roger.

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