Date: Fri, 15 Mar 96 20:42 EST From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Apache Motherboard???? Message-ID: <9603152042.AA01549@databus.databus.com>
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>From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> >Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:49:28 -0800 (PST) > >NONE! The Orion chip set is seriously flawed in several design aspects, >and even the B0 stepping will not fix these flaws. Until the second >generation P6 chip sets come out of Intel my advice on Pentium Pro is >simply _don't_ do it. Could you provide particulars or a URL? For example, Intel's web server says that a bursting PCI device can lock out an ISA device, and advises that one only use PCI-master NICs, for example. Is that all that's wrong, or is it something that can't be worked around? Thanks, Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
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