From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon May 13 12:33:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA15406 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 12:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neon.Glock.COM (neon.glock.com [198.82.228.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA15393 Mon, 13 May 1996 12:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by neon.Glock.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA03211; Mon, 13 May 1996 15:32:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199605131932.PAA03211@neon.Glock.COM> Subject: Re: Triton chipset with 256k cache caches 32M only? To: blh@nol.net (Brett L. Hawn) Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 15:32:45 -0400 (EDT) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brett L. Hawn" at May 13, 96 01:56:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] 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 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/