Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 13:20:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Cc: Bryan Liesner <bleez@bellatlantic.net>, Greg Work <Greg@fatcanary.com.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 Message-ID: <20000702132043.X18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200007020340.e623eYX13655@lerami.lerctr.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007012317180.226-100000@adsl-151-197-201-28.bellatlantic.net> <200007020340.e623eYX13655@lerami.lerctr.org>
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On Saturday, 1 July 2000 at 22:40:34 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: >> On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Larry Rosenman wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >>> I'm tired of fighting it. >> >> It's got to be flaky hardware somewhwere, Larry. I'm running an AMD >> K6-2/500 here on a Soyo Super 7 motherboard with a single 128M stick >> of SDRAM. I just finished a make world today (1hr 20m total time) and >> it never gave me so much as a hiccup. I usually make world once a >> week around this time and it has never failed on this configuration. > > Fine. I suspect something in the Shuttle board/Bios Combo, then. > > As I said, I couldn't get 2 different Shuttle Boards, and a couple > of instances of each, to make it work. > > I just didn't have the time to devote to finding a solution > that WORKED. > > I *DID* post, and HOPED for a response like this one over the last > month or so. Today is the first dialog I've had off the list > with answers. Unfortunately, that's the way things work here. You would probably have been better off with the FreeBSD-questions list; the topic has nothing to do with -STABLE, and there are fewer subscribers. Also, note that people don't always have time to read the lists. I've just got back from 3 weeks of travel, for example. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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