Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:07:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Sten <sten@blinkenlights.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: machine checks on a AlphaPC 164LX Message-ID: <15670.48555.285297.568536@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44-Blink.0207181041220.802-100000@deepthought.blinkenlights.nl> References: <15669.57930.427134.220183@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.44-Blink.0207181041220.802-100000@deepthought.blinkenlights.nl>
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Sten writes: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > I've got a PC164LX which will crash with a machine check under heavy > > disk IO to its on-board CMD 646 ATA controller. > > well the onboard ata is so amazingly slow that I wouldnt > recommend using it. The problem however is that promise Actually, an LX's onboard ATA is not that bad (10MB/sec). At least it does DMA. What you really want to stay away from is the SX's (or Miata, or XP1000, or DS20) cypress chip, which only does PIO. > and other cards arent bootable. You would either > have to boot from floppy or use a scsi adaptor to boot. Yeah, I know. > You've updated the srm, and arent running current ? :) Yep. RELENG_4. And the latest SRM as of Jan. I don't think they are updating the SRM much for LXs anymore. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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