From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 18:00:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19947 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:00:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19910 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:00:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA14051; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:05:47 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id MAA18603; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:05:45 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:05:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: sporkl@ix.netcom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware woes - AMD K6/2-300 (?) Message-ID: <19990121120545.Q15785@freebie.lemis.com> References: <31025.916877934@monkeys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <31025.916877934@monkeys.com>; from Ronald F. Guilmette on Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:18:54PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 20 January 1999 at 16:18:54 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message , you wrote: > >> I have used 2.2.8 on an AMD k6/2-300 system. >> Signal 11 is segmentation fault, so it would appear that this would be a >> memory problem. Is your motherboard's memory configuration compatible with >> the memory you are using? > > Yes. I have just learned however that there was a known problem with the > earlier (pre-C) steppings of the AMD-K6/2 which causes them to be unreliable > when used with more than 32MB of memory. This has now been confirmed for > me by AMD. If you're referring to the stuff you told me about in private mail, no, this referred *only* to the K6/1. I've been running a later K6/1-233 for over a year now. I had problems with it at the beginning, but they disappeared completely when I installed a bigger fan. You'll note that just about all the replies agree that there are no problems with AMD. > My system has 64MB in it. > > The processor that _I_ bought (as part of a complete system) apparently is > of the `A' stepping vintage - it has the bug. I'm pretty sure that this is not the case. > Of course, the dealer I bought it from claims that hs has no AMD K6/2-300s > which are any later than stepping `A' and that his distributor also has none > of any later stepping... Translation? I got screwed. Are there any B steppings yet? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message