Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 23:41:51 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why would fxp be slower than ed? Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000505233127.043bf890@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10005060121400.24686-100000@jason.argos.org> References: <4.3.1.2.20000505222842.043b5e00@localhost>
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At 11:29 PM 5/5/2000, Mike Nowlin wrote: > > upgraded from 16K to 24K of RAM at the same time and kernel memory > >24K?!?! Wow! How'd you get the kernel that small? :) Oh, I just cut out the nonessential parts, such as syscons, ffs -- unimportant stuff like that. I meant 24M, of course. I just drove 3.5 hours and my blears are a little eyery. ;-) >I ran into a lot of PCI 486 boards that had "issues". Keep in mind that >the PCI spec was fairly incomplete and open to the manufacturer's >interpretation as to how it should work. I have a PCI 486 running as a >little internal web server that bogged down incredibly when I put a >Diamond PCI video card in it -- went back to the old ISA Trident 8900, and >things were back to normal. This one happens to have a Diamond PCI video card in it. It actually works pretty well. Hmmm. I wonder if the problem is with having more than one PCI card in the system? Since the system is text-based I could put in an 8-bit Hercules card and a monochrome/TTL monitor. >There may be some BIOS config settings in there that may help - bus >priority/speed, IRQ designations, etc... Depends on the board. Well, we gave that socket IRQ 5 and thought that this would make it pretty fast. The chipset is the Intel Saturn (Anyone know if there are issues with this one?) and the board is a Zeos Rattler. Lots of integrated peripherals (including optional SCSI) and very reliable. It's worked flawlessly for years. I wonder why the problems now. >I'll bet you a shiny new penny (you pay for postage) that a cheap 75MHz >Pentium board would reverse the problem. My fxp cards blow the socks off >the NE2K's that I replaced... I was thinking of doing a motherboard upgrade. Trouble is, the case is an AT tower, and AT (rather than ATX) motherboards can be difficult to come by nowadays. --Brett "You're not just e-mailing her, you're e-mailing anyone she's ever e-mailed." -- Dayton Daily News Cartoonist Mike Peters on the "Melissa virus" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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