From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Dec 14 05:12:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA05637 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 05:12:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from yamuna.will.knipp.de ([195.138.38.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA05615 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 05:12:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pruess@yamuna.will.knipp.de) Received: (from pruess@localhost) by yamuna.will.knipp.de (8.8.5/8.7.3) id OAA02346; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 14:12:41 +0100 (CET) From: Gunnar Pruessner Message-Id: <199712141312.OAA02346@yamuna.will.knipp.de> Subject: Problems with Tyan Tomcat IV To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 14:12:40 +0100 (CET) Cc: pruess@yamuna.will.knipp.de (Gunnar Pruessner) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello! Recently we tested a new system: Tyan Tomcat IV (single processor), K6-233 (C9746BJGW 3.3(!)V Core), 2x64MB + 6x32MB = 320MB. We tried all available BIOS options for cache and RAM timing, but it failed again and again at the latest after 2 hours: "Page fault in kernel mode" or simply hanging (without core). Any suggestions? We need at least 256MB and PPro-class computing power, do you know any alternatives? Thank you, Gunnar -- ###################################################### # # # "5.6 Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die # # Grenzen meiner Welt." # # # # -- Ludwig Wittgenstein # ######################################################