From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 6 15:05:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA08337 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:05:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [199.184.181.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA08326 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:05:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from right.PCS (right.pcs. [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA11581; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:00:17 -0600 (CST) Received: (jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id XAA10197; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 23:04:06 GMT Message-Id: <199701062304.XAA10197@right.PCS> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:04:06 -0600 From: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm), jfieber@indiana.edu, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New motherboard breaks tape drive References: <199701062048.NAA12457@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199701062048.NAA12457@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 6, 1997 13:48:59 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Because the HiNT chipset was so terrible, NiCE went under and was > sold off several times, so there are several vendors with HiNT > chipset systems. As far as I know, the HiNT chipset is only > present in a few older EISA or EISA/ISA systems. Heh. When I bought my EISA machine about 4 years back, I was worried that their motherboard wouldn't be able to cache any memory above 16M. So I called them up and asked them how many address lines they had going to their tag cache - nobody in their tech department could even answer my question. So I finally had them fax over the damned schematics and looked at them myself. Incompetents, sigh. (Yes, they only had 24 address lines, and I wanted to put in 32M back then). -- Jonathan