From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 30 10: 6:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D3B6151C3 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA27967; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:05:59 -0400 (EDT) To: Andrew Loree Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 100Mhz Bus References: <37A1C82C.1FF47F89@wright.edu> User-Agent: SEMI/1.13.3 (Komaiko) FLIM/1.12.5 (Hirahata) Emacs/20.3 (i386-pc-solaris2.7) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.3 - "Komaiko") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Chris Shenton Date: 30 Jul 1999 13:05:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: Andrew Loree's message of "Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:43:40 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:43:40 -0400, Andrew Loree said: Andrew> This is not really freebsd related, but I just ordered a K-6 Andrew> 3D Now! 400 cpu, and, not really thinking about it, I am still Andrew> using 128 MB of good old EDO ram. Do I need 100 mhz memory to Andrew> use this cpu? Or does it depended upon the mb I am using (FIC Andrew> VA503+ super baby 7). To get maximum throughput on the bus you should use "PC-100" memory. The FIC you mention has boatloads of jumbers so you can run the system and memory busses at different speeds and take advantage of your old memory. The FIC docs that come with the mobo talk about this (in a confusing and less-than-perfectly-helpful way). You chould check the FIC mobo newsgroup. Lots of info there on this. I've been running a K6/2-300 on FIC503+ for about a year now with no problems. Well, except the onboard bios doesn't grok SCSI so I couldn't boot from my scsi drives, and I don't do IDE :-(. Someone pointed me to a SCSI bios shim image and procedures to add it to your bios, then reflash and it's been working fine. (what a hack!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message