Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-04 Thread Terry Lambert
David O'Brien wrote: Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too. There are at least two major problems with VIA chips: [data curruption on VIA KT133/133A systems by pushing PCI and memory bus] Are you sure about that? I am. I was having data coruption in

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-04 Thread Jason Andresen
Terry Lambert wrote: David O'Brien wrote: Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too. There are at least two major problems with VIA chips: [data curruption on VIA KT133/133A systems by pushing PCI and memory bus] Are you sure about that? I am.

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-04 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry Lambert writes: : Are you sure it's not just a CMD640 IDE controller? They are : known to have issues; Linux has a patch... FreeBSD used to, but : I think it got yanked out, or was just turned off by default. The CMD640 had many DMA corruption bugs. Many are

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-03 Thread Moran, Chris
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 10:33 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Erik Greenwald writes: [Erik Greenwald too] I'm using both of those (iwill kk266) with a thunderbird 850, and haven't had problems in fbsd. Linux flakes out

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:11:15AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:33:36PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too. There are at least two major problems with VIA chips: [data curruption on VIA

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems David O'Brien wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:11:15AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:33:36PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too. There are at least two major problems with VIA

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-02 Thread Rob
On a related topic, I wonder whether gcc 3.0 will improve Athon compilations. I have a big number crunching program that runs just as fast on Windows2000 on my laptop(1Ghz PPro), as on my monster 1.2G Athlon DDR with FreeBSD. Rob. Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems David O'Brien wrote: On

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-01 Thread Charles Shannon Hendrix
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:33:36PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too. There are at least two major problems with VIA chips: [data curruption on VIA KT133/133A systems by pushing PCI and memory bus] Are you sure about that?

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-08-31 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
snip Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133 chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the difference?). For more info, check out: Well, I've been using an abit

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-08-31 Thread Erik Greenwald
snip Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133 chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the difference?). For more info, check out: Well, I've been using

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-08-31 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Erik Greenwald writes: [Erik Greenwald too] I'm using both of those (iwill kk266) with a thunderbird 850, and haven't had problems in fbsd. Linux flakes out a bit when I tell it I have a k7 processor, so I told it I have a k6 and it works fine. sorry, this thread was supposed to stay in