Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:15:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: iain@heist.demon.co.uk (Iain Baird) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD doesn't like SNAP! (panic: unwire: page not in pmap) Message-ID: <199603121815.KAA14081@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199603121536.PAA16767@heist.demon.co.uk> from "Iain Baird" at Mar 12, 96 03:36:48 pm
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> > Rodney W. Grimes said: > > > Can you recommend a good 486 motherboard (preferably PCI)? > > > > Nope, IMHO, there are no _good_ 486 boards left on the market, the last > > _good_ 486 PCI board I could get was the ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G and I have not > > been able to get any more of them. > > FYI, I have a Gigabyte GA486-AMS. It has been rock solid with > 2.1.0-RELEASE and AHA-2940 using both AMD DX4-120 and AMD 5x86-133 > with L1 and L2 write back enabled. I had to upgrade to the latest > BIOS to get support for the 5x86. > > I don't know whether this meets Rod's criteria for a _good_ board, > but it works well for me. Gigabyte stopped production of 486 boards in January, or so I was told by my local Gigabyte distributor. The -AMS was a reasonable board, but fell short on performance when compared to the ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G on memory intensive benchmarks. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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