From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 27 10:42:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tsunami.reflectively.net (tsunami.reflectively.net [216.85.76.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5B4137B43C for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 40386 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2000 17:42:49 -0000 Received: from cc47835-b.chmbl1.ga.home.com (HELO vapor) (@24.5.106.158) by tsunami.reflectively.net with SMTP; 27 Aug 2000 17:42:49 -0000 Message-ID: <001b01c0104e$1f83d1c0$0200000a@cm.420.net> From: "Robert Augustine" To: Subject: Re: Random Reboots and Miscellaneous Athlon/FIC Problems. Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:42:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Disposition-Notification-To: "Robert Augustine" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I would like to update the list on my problems and give a brief generalisation. I would have to say that the SD-11 must be poorly manufactured because along with the fact that random reboots occur quite often, and are almost impossible to trace, the UDMA33 and ATA66 don't work at all. To fix my problems I implemented an older Matsonic motherboard with all the wonderful SMB features (the 7070SD to be percise) and a Promise Fasttrak66/100 card to handle the UDMA/ATA features. The Matsonic is a Dual PentiumIII 500-700mhz compatible motherboard with a nice INTEL chipset. I dont want to be the pot calling the kettle black but wtf is up with VIA? Are there actual implementations of the Athlon Processor the VIA Chipset and UDMA/ATA66 working in unison? I think Asus and Abit are coming out with their two newest boards that will solve alot of the deficiency problems with voltage and/or the ATA controller's onboard. The models are the Abit KA7100 AMD Athlon Slot A ATX Motherboard (list $153.00) and the Asus A7V Amd Socket A ATX ATA100 Motherboard (list $154.00). I have now learned the extensiveness of FreeBSD being picky and quite frankly I understand and am very empathetic to its needs. Does anyone have some case studies involving the above mentioned hardware? It would be very nice to hear from other people on these issues. -Robert p.s. Regarding the fasttrak controller since it shows up as /dev/ad6 does this mean I can end up putting massive amounts of IDE inside the machine with the mainbord ide controller and if needed more Promise cards? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message