From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 16 20:28:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA03872 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 20:28:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA03865 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 20:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA28840 for hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:58:18 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199609170328.MAA28840@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: RAM timings for Triton chipsets? To: hardware@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:58:18 +0930 (CST) 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 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 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 rev 1 on pci0:0 chip1 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.) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[