From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue May 30 10:34:14 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA25540 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 30 May 1995 10:34:14 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA25480 for ; Tue, 30 May 1995 10:34:01 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA17091; Tue, 30 May 1995 10:33:54 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505301733.KAA17091@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Triton chipset experiences? To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 10:33:54 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505301722.AA06959@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at May 30, 95 01:22:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1193 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Does anyone have any experience in using FreeBSD on a Triton-based > motherboard, in particular with performance tuning? Does the chipset > need to be fiddled to get maximum possible performance out of the > machine? I am selling between 3 and 10 ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 boards a week right now (mostly in full systems) and have had no problem with them. You don't have to tweak things to get performance out of this board, though you can get some more if you use 60nS simms with 90Mhz parts by tweaking some of the RAM timing parameters. If you are running a 100Mhz CPU you *must* have 60nS simms and have found that much tweaking beyond the standard set up leads to instability of the system (if you used 53nS simms you *might* get a little more by setting the memory write burst timing to 2-2-2-2 instead of 3-3-3-3). I am currently investigation an EDO memory problem with ASUS, it does not do what it should do from my reading of the Micron EDO memory data books and AP notes. Have you been reading your mailling lists lately??? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD