Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 17:07:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Art Neilson, WH7N" <art@pilikia.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 Message-ID: <20000702170703.A18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000701200540.00bab680@pilikia.net> References: <200007020237.e622bY510740@lerami.lerctr.org> <20000702120324.S18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200007020237.e622bY510740@lerami.lerctr.org> <20000702122418.W18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3.0.6.32.20000701200540.00bab680@pilikia.net>
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[moved to -questions] People on -questions: this is the tail end of a thread that went through -stable and ended up without a satisfactory resolution. As I observed there, it might have been more successful on -questions, but Larry has returned the system now, so all we have is a post-mortem. On Saturday, 1 July 2000 at 20:05:40 -1000, Art Neilson, WH7N wrote: > At 12:24 PM 7/2/00 +0930, you wrote: >> >> [ stuff deleted .. ] >> >> Your prerogative. I'm not trying to make black white or any such >> thing, but it seems that you haven't been very thorough in your >> analysis. That in itself isn't an issue, but under the circumstances >> I can't see why you blame one component over another. Lots of people >> are running all kinds of AMD processors, the same speed, slower and >> faster, and most of them work fine. > > Right, I've been running FreeBSD for a couple of years on a Tyan Titan > motherboard with a 200Mhz AMD K6-2 with absolutely zero problems. > I installed 2.2.8 on it originally and now am running 3.5-STABLE. > It's rock solid with FreeBSD and I love it. I don't think there was a K6-2 at 200 MHz. You're probably talking about the original K6. I had one at 233 MHz, which was pushing it for the K6 (it generated about twice the heat of the 200 MHz part), and after putting an appropriate cooling on it, I had no trouble. I wonder if similar considerations apply to the K6-2/550. Anyway, I replaced that with a K6-2 333 MHz, which is still running and has given no problems whatsoever, and I'm writing this on a machine with a K7/750 (Athlon), which seems to have tickled a bug (now worked around) in the APM code, but I haven't had any real problems with it. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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