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Date:      Mon, 13 May 1996 15:32:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
To:        blh@nol.net (Brett L. Hawn)
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Triton chipset with 256k cache caches 32M only?
Message-ID:  <199605131932.PAA03211@neon.Glock.COM>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960513135456.14240A-100000@dazed.nol.net> from "Brett L. Hawn" at May 13, 96 01:56:30 pm

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Brett L. Hawn writes:

> On Mon, 13 May 1996, matthew c. mead wrote:

> > > Assuming that these are Triton-1 chipsets you will find that
> > > anything over 64m leads to non-caching. I would highly suggest
> > > getting some of the new ASUS (just my particular favorite) tr-2
> > > chipset motherboards, these solve the caching problem along
> > > with many of the other inherent bugs of tr-1 chipsets.

> > 	Well, I'm positive that anything over 64M will lead to
> > non-caching.  I'm also positive that anything over 32M leads to
> > non-caching.  Any ideas on what I should do to get the upper 8M
> > (megs 32-39) cached?  I'm thinking of purchasing a 512k COAST
> > module, but I want to make sure that will do it before I buy it.

> I've not run into the >32mb caching before but I can't say as I ever had >32
> && <64 in a machine at any given time. Rather than purchasing the module I'd
> look into the cost of buying a new tr-2 motherboard w/ 512k pipeline-burst
> cache (Winbob, the hitatchi cache blows goats).

	Unfortunately, I don't see that as an option, as I got
this motherboard at a good bargain.  If I had had the money to
purchase a better motherboard, I would have purchased a TYAN
Tomcat with 512K sync PB cache.  Thus, my desire to just purchase
the 512K sync PB COAST cache module and have caching on all 40M.
I just need to verify that will work... :-)


-matt

-- 
Matthew C. Mead

mmead@Glock.COM
http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/



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