Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 20:57:18 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE support? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809202052030.28425-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <13829.23347.309394.748383@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Doug Rabson writes: > > > As far as I can tell. :( I just had a chance to play with the Rev C0 > > > boards, and they still suck just as much. I believe the C0 is the > > > latest rev, although I am not absolutely sure. > > > > In what sense are they broken? I have a 164LX and (barring the time the > > heatsink fell off) it has been working very well. > > Say that after putting a Myrinet or gigabit ethernet card in it ;-) > > 164LX's share at least some of the problems of early revision miatas. > Chris sees slow host->PCI dma bandwidth (~70MB/sec) with his Myrinet > card. Whether it shares other, nastier problems (page boundary DMA > bugs), I don't know. Oh, right. I don't have anything particularly fast in the box and to be honest I haven't actually timed it doing anything. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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