From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 19:22:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29415 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:22:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lab.cba.ualr.edu (lab.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29377 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:21:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@lab.cba.ualr.edu) Received: from access60.mod1.ualr.edu (joe@access60.mod1.ualr.edu [144.167.7.60]) by lab.cba.ualr.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA10141; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:16:53 -0600 Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:16:37 -0600 (EST) From: joe X-Sender: joe@lab.cba To: Greg Lehey cc: "Ronald F. Guilmette" , sporkl@ix.netcom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware woes - AMD K6/2-300 (?) In-Reply-To: <19990121120545.Q15785@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is a Signal 11 FAQ at: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ It's not specific to FreeBSD but it may give some insight. -joe On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 January 1999 at 16:18:54 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > > In message , you wrote: > > > >> I have used 2.2.8 on an AMD k6/2-300 system. > >> Signal 11 is segmentation fault, so it would appear that this would be a > >> memory problem. Is your motherboard's memory configuration compatible with > >> the memory you are using? > > > > Yes. I have just learned however that there was a known problem with the > > earlier (pre-C) steppings of the AMD-K6/2 which causes them to be unreliable > > when used with more than 32MB of memory. This has now been confirmed for > > me by AMD. > > If you're referring to the stuff you told me about in private mail, > no, this referred *only* to the K6/1. I've been running a later > K6/1-233 for over a year now. I had problems with it at the > beginning, but they disappeared completely when I installed a bigger > fan. You'll note that just about all the replies agree that there are > no problems with AMD. > > > My system has 64MB in it. > > > > The processor that _I_ bought (as part of a complete system) apparently is > > of the `A' stepping vintage - it has the bug. > > I'm pretty sure that this is not the case. > > > Of course, the dealer I bought it from claims that hs has no AMD K6/2-300s > > which are any later than stepping `A' and that his distributor also has none > > of any later stepping... Translation? I got screwed. > > Are there any B steppings yet? > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message