From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 17:51:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA18199 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 17:51:42 -0800 Received: from sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (sivka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.125.68.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA18126 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 17:49:31 -0800 Received: from elvisti.kiev.ua (uucp@localhost) by sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (Sendmail 8.who.cares/5) with UUCP id DAA13205 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:49:20 +0200 Received: from office.elvisti.kiev.ua (office.elvisti.kiev.ua [193.125.28.33]) by spider2.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.ElVisti) with ESMTP id DAA27024 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:37:22 +0200 Received: (from stesin@localhost) by office.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.ElVisti) id DAA07970; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:37:21 +0200 From: "Andrew V. Stesin" Message-Id: <199511220137.DAA07970@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Subject: FreeBSD and ASUS SP3 motherboard -- ? To: hardware@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:37:20 +0200 (EET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1702 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, today I've been installing a FreeBSD system for a friend (951026-SNAP). Just took two disks and NCR out of a working machine (Am486DX2/66, SOYO PCI motherboard) where it lives and went to his office. We were installing onto an ASUS P55TP4XE Pentium, and my disks were installed into a Am486DX4/100 + ASUS SP3 motherboard (note: that's _not_ an SP3G, just SP3). Strange enough, the NCR+2Conner1Gb trio which is working Ok on SOYO+DX2/66, was panicing after some ten minutes or even less in ASUS SP3 with DX4/100... that was a pain because I was forced to reattempt extraction step several times. It bombed with a message from kernel malloc() -- like "no memory available". Disabling caches (external, then both) didn't help. Needless to mention that all tech tests from DOS, DOS itself and windo$e too are Ok on this box. I am still puzzled. Has anyone a combination of ASUS SP3 and Am486DX4/100 working with FreeBSD 2.1 ? I know that SP3G needs some special combination of jumpers installed to work with new and fast AMD CPUs; does SP3 need smth like this too? (They have a plenty of SP3-equipped boxes with Am486DX4/100, and want to use some of them for FreeBSD, too -- if only it's possible). P.S. ASUS Pentium (P55TP4XE motherboard) with NCR PCI SCSI and two Quantum Fireball 1Gb drives... HOW GREAT IT IS!!! The box of my dreams. Comparatively cheap and _really_ the fastest FreeBSD box I've ever seen. I'd recommend this combo to everyone. LONG LIVE FreeBSD AND PEOPLE WHO DID IT! THE VERY FASTEST UNIX IS FreeBSD-2.*! -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 An undocumented feature is a coding error.