On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:52:28AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Friday 02 November 2001 00:21, Wilko Bulte wrote: > [snip problem description] > > I ran the same systemdisk & all expansion cards in a PII-266 > > with Intel chipset without any issue. The K7V is rock stable > > as long as I keep my fingers from fxtv. > > > > Suggestions on how to analyse/workaround this issue are most > > welcome. Anything in the BIOS setup maybe? > > > > Sorry, no idea how to fix this, but I saw a very similar problem > under Linux while writing a driver for a data-acquisition board. > On a K7M (AMD chipset) I couldn't access the on-board memory > reliably, but using an INTEL chipset and CPU everything worked > just fine. Your report makes me think that there's a generic bug > in the Athlon and not a problem in the chipsets, which is what I > originally suspected.
It appears things are more complicated than that. I have swapped the Adaptec 29160 for a 2940UW. I am now running continous buildworlds, a 'dd' of the SCSI disk and fxtv in parallel. This appears to work like a charm until now. I'll let it run and see what develops Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
