From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Apr 14 11:26:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles535.castles.com [208.214.165.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB4B14F78 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:26:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04029; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:21:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199904141821.LAA04029@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: tls@rek.tjls.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: many cheap PC164 boards -- gret for NetBSD (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:21:19 EDT." <19990414142119.C21197@rek.tjls.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:21:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > My vendor tells me that if you put the 533Mhz part on a PC164 board, it will > only run at 500MHz. So that's something to be aware of. I have limited > experience in replacing the oscillators on these boards (to *down* clock > them, in my case, so I could recover from a nasty firmware flash utility bug > by using the SROM debugger, which doesn't autobaud right at higher clock > rates) and while it's probably not too hard, I think you'd have significant > trouble getting the oscillator you need to do it, I got a few leftover > samples from a research lab, but minimum orders for the parts are usually in > the thousands. Just as a datapoint; my previous employer regularly used to buy custom-cut oscillators in the 5-10 off range. For a one-off you're probably looking at a couple weeks wait and maybe US$20-50 depending on the supplier (all of ours were in Australia). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message