Date: 30 Jul 1999 13:05:59 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> To: Andrew Loree <loree.3@wright.edu> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 100Mhz Bus Message-ID: <lfiu72cbk8.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: Andrew Loree's message of "Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:43:40 -0400" References: <37A1C82C.1FF47F89@wright.edu>
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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:43:40 -0400, Andrew Loree <loree.3@wright.edu> 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
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