> > I might be able to get a ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G+AMD 486DX4/100 system
> > (onboard 53c810), but it'd have to be stable with a Quantum Fireball
> > 1080, Sony cdrom, etc.
> 
> Hard to know. Generally, the faster the disk and the slower the
> processor, the more likely it is to fail.

Actually, I had experienced the opposite, too. This was with a exactly this
ASUS SP3G with 486DX4/100 and some old ESDI disk with the Emulex MD21,
if I remember correctly.
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