Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:58:18 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RAM timings for Triton chipsets? Message-ID: <199609170328.MAA28840@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Just a quick question for anyone familiar with the jargon that Award
use in their older Triton BIOSsen.
I just had to reboot my system here (to clear an NFS mount that's now in
Japan 8), and stuck my nose into the "Chipset Setup" option in the BIOS
for a poke around.
I thought I'd try changing a couple of the memory timing options from
"x2222" to "x4444", there being no explanation of what these mean.
And lo and behold, the system _seems_ much faster. It could just be that
it's just been rebooted after being up for months, but at the same time
I'm wondering if the changes could be significant.
FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #0: Wed Mar 20 11:07:43 CST 1996
root@cain.atrad.adelaide.edu.au:/local1/2.1.0-STABLE/src/sys/compile/CAIN
CPU: 100-MHz Pentium 815\\100 (Pentium-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping=5
Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
avail memory = 31301632 (30568K bytes)
pcibus_setup(1): mode1res=0x80000000 (0x80000000), mode2res=0xff (0x0e)
pcibus_setup(2): mode1res=0x80000000 (0x80000000)
pcibus_check: device 0 is there (id=122d8086)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
configuration mode 1 allows 32 devices.
chip0 <Intel 82437 (Triton)> rev 1 on pci0:0
chip1 <Intel 82371 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:7
(Apologies for the ancient kernel, it's just so STABLE that I've had
no call for a new one. This and 'genesis' :
FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #0: Wed Nov 1 15:35:25 CST 1995
are two excellent advertisements for FreeBSD.)
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