Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:01:23 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU Cc: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, root@meeko.eecs.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: AMD K6 Message-ID: <199707140001.RAA00716@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:39:12 PDT." <199707132239.PAA28695@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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> I ma currently test driving an AMD K6/200 in a >FIC PA-2005 motherboard and I am getting a lot of crashes. >(actually it looks like a reset, no cores, no console messages >just a spontaneous reboot). I am wondering if anyone has seen >the K6 do similar things. The vendor says "The K6 does support >UNIX", but I am inclined to believe that he doesn't have a clue. >I am thinking I will return the K6 and get a Cyrix M2, any thoughts? In tests here with a K6/166, I've been having some reliability problems that I've isolated to the CPU. The main symptom is that "make world" will stop with a random error. When I first got the hardware, everything worked fine - I did at least 10 "make world"s without any trouble, but then things started getting flakey. I've heard similar reports from two other people, so this appears to not be an isolated problem. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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