From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue May 14 17:41:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA28254 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 17:41:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA28249 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 17:41:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA04617; Tue, 14 May 1996 17:40:44 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199605150040.RAA04617@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Triton chipset with 256k cache caches 32M only? To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie) Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 17:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Brandon Gillespie at "May 13, 96 02:46:23 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Mon, 13 May 1996, Brett L. Hawn wrote: > > > > Assuming that these are Triton-1 chipsets you will find that anything over > > 64m leads to non-caching. I would highly suggest getting some of the new > > ASUS (just my particular favorite) tr-2 chipset motherboards, these solve > > the caching problem along with many of the other inherent bugs of tr-1 > > chipsets. > > How do you determine which chipset you have? I just picked up the 6x86 > bundled with a triton mb. From the motherboard manual: > > Main Chipset: INTEL TRITON CHIPSET > SB82371FB-PIIX*1, SB82437-TSC*1, S82438-TPD*2 That is triton-I, as in Triton-II the TSC has been compined with the TPD chips, so for Triton-II you would have a SB82371SB and a FW82439HX. > IO Chipset: SMB665/SMC669/UMC8669/ALI M5113 > PCI Bus Master IDE Embedded Via SB82371FB These tend to stay the same on most vendors Triton-II board, ASUS seems to have gone back to the SMC669, but that can change as the parts are pretty much interchangable except for bios programming. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD