Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 21:29:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: ler@lerctr.org, grog@lemis.com, Greg@fatcanary.com.au, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 Message-ID: <200007050229.VAA40330@aurora.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <48265.962741737_localhost@ns.sol.net> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 4, 2000 8:17:50 pm"
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> > Let's put it this way, I've posted a NUMBER of items to the -stable list > > over the last 2-4 weeks as I've fought this one. I can't get a > > CPU/BIOS/MB with a K6-2/550 on it to SUCCESSFULLY/RELIABLY make world. > > Well, it's certainly a hardware problem of some sort since we have > literally dozens of K6-2 systems here - we built a cluster of them for > package building and have a bunch of them also serving in various > FreeBSD desktop roles. They all work flawlessly, from FreeBSD 3.x all > the way up to 5.0-current. Where the hardware problem is with your > system is, of course, almost impossible to diagnose remotely but rest > assured that it is NOT a software issue. I'm also not saying that you > implied such was the case, I just wanted to state such publically and > for the record. Ditto. I'm slowly but surely dumping all my Intel Pentium stuff, plus most of my 486 or older stuff :-) I've been using the ASUS P/I-P55T2P4, the venerable Triton II overclocker's board, which I've got a plethora of, and some P5A's. My baseline systems are now K6/233's, ranging up to K6-III-400's (which still seem to be faster than their K6-2 higher speed counterparts). Only using Intel for the SMP stuff now. And on my laptop :-( -- ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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