On 10/13/10 17:25, Robert wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:55:18 -0400 > Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> can be done about it, and 10 year old quirky PC hardware doesn't >> attract a of interest... > > As long as it's on [1] I hope it does? > I guess I'm not the only one who uses a Pentium 4 (or older stuff) for > firewalls and other systems, since they are very cheap to buy and > replace, and are more than sufficient (speed) for a lot of tasks. > > regards, > Robert > > [1] http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
There are big differences between well-designed hardware, poorly designed and implemented hardware, hardware is working properly and hardware that is malfunctioning. A lot of hardware out there was tested with Windows-of-the-Day (and maybe the day before) and that's it. Anything else it works with, great, but it was by luck, not design. A lot of "early" AMD stuff was junk. I'm not talking about the AMD chips themselves, I'm talking about the REST of the computer. I've got a few AMD K6 systems, and NONE of them can build from source at the rated speed with OpenBSD. They'll run the OS just fine, but they can't build, giving sig11's at random places during the process. Replace the RAM with stuff that has worked well in 133MHz bus machines, same thing. Slow down the bus speed, increase the multiplier, and suddenly they work fine. I don't think that's an OpenBSD problem, and I really don't want developers fighting with that. I have heard reports of these kinds of problems extending well into the Athlon days... In your case, though, yes, I'd look closely at your hardware. Not sure why you have both a 150G disk and a 15G disk...double your chances of disk failure taking your system out...for 10% more storage. I also see re2 is on irq12. That's the PS/2 mouse IRQ. Sure, you don't have a mouse on your machine, maybe you have the mouse port "off" in the BIOS...but I'd be completely unsurprised if your HW mfg screwed the pooch and didn't really disconnect the PS/2 hardware from IRQ controller, and that could be causing some of your issues there (twist knobs in the system BIOS, you can probably fix this). And I'd not be surprised in the least if BOTH were problems for you... Nick.
