From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Oct 27 4:47:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from kamidake.apricot.com (kamidake.apricot.com [64.121.160.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E68637B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 04:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from toddpw@localhost) by kamidake.apricot.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA04930; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 04:45:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Todd P. Whitesel" Message-Id: <200010271145.EAA04930@kamidake.apricot.com> Subject: Re: i386/22240: unstable UDMA on Iwill VD133PL v1.6 (Apollo MVP3, IDE rev 0x10) In-Reply-To: <200010260906.CAA16942@kamidake.apricot.com> from "Todd P. Whitesel" at "Oct 26, 0 02:06:09 am" To: toddpw@apricot.com (Todd P. Whitesel) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 04:45:32 -0700 (PDT) Cc: sos@freebsd.dk, toddpw@apricot.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Hmm, if you can get access to some different brands of memory that could > > shed some new light on this... I just tested two new 64 MB modules with CMT Labs "Gold" stickers on them, purchased at a local PC chop-shop "hole in the wall" place that we've had good experiences with so far... They did not improve things any. Also I tried removing the network card and switching from AGP to PCI video; still the same predictably flaky behavior. At this point I have to suspect one of four cases: 1. received two bad P3/733EB's (really unlikely) 2. received two bad motherboards (seems likely) 3. Iwill VD133PL or the VIA 133Pro itself have "issues" (possible) 4. VIA made some subtle hardware change that needs O/S support (hrm) In any case I am sick of spending my last four weekends trying to get these working. Time to visit the chop-shop and get them to let me try one of the newer i815 boards, and probably end up going with those. > Will do. In the meantime I am going to keep stressing the other memory module > and see if I can get it to fail the BIOS test as well. That's my proof when I It's been running happily in my trusty PC100 machine for 12 hours and counting, whereas the other module caused trouble in the same machine within minutes. I can no longer believe that the memory modules are solely responsible for what I'm seeing. -- Todd Whitesel Anime Expo Information at toddpw @ apricot.com http://www.anime-expo.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message