Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 17:40:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Triton chipset with 256k cache caches 32M only? Message-ID: <199605150040.RAA04617@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960513143842.4110C-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com> from Brandon Gillespie at "May 13, 96 02:46:23 pm"
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> On Mon, 13 May 1996, Brett L. Hawn wrote: > > > > Assuming that these are Triton-1 chipsets you will find that anything over > > 64m leads to non-caching. I would highly suggest getting some of the new > > ASUS (just my particular favorite) tr-2 chipset motherboards, these solve > > the caching problem along with many of the other inherent bugs of tr-1 > > chipsets. > > How do you determine which chipset you have? I just picked up the 6x86 > bundled with a triton mb. From the motherboard manual: > > Main Chipset: INTEL TRITON CHIPSET > SB82371FB-PIIX*1, SB82437-TSC*1, S82438-TPD*2 That is triton-I, as in Triton-II the TSC has been compined with the TPD chips, so for Triton-II you would have a SB82371SB and a FW82439HX. > IO Chipset: SMB665/SMC669/UMC8669/ALI M5113 > PCI Bus Master IDE Embedded Via SB82371FB These tend to stay the same on most vendors Triton-II board, ASUS seems to have gone back to the SMC669, but that can change as the parts are pretty much interchangable except for bios programming. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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