From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 13 17:05:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14385 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (dynamic1.pm02.sf1.best.com [206.184.197.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA14378 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) id RAA03220; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:05:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199707140005.RAA03220@superior.mooseriver.com> Subject: Re: AMD K6 In-Reply-To: <199707132239.PAA28695@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from John Milford at "Jul 13, 97 03:39:12 pm" To: jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:05:27 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, root@meeko.eecs.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Milford said: > > I ma currently test driving an AMD K6/200 in a >FIC PA-2005 motherboard and I am getting a lot of crashes. >(actually it looks like a reset, no cores, no console messages >just a spontaneous reboot). I am wondering if anyone has seen >the K6 do similar things. The vendor says "The K6 does support >UNIX", but I am inclined to believe that he doesn't have a clue. >I am thinking I will return the K6 and get a Cyrix M2, any thoughts? > > I have been told by reliable sources that the K6 has problems. My source tried 5 times to keep a K6 running but has given up on them. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.1 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses