Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 22:30:38 +0100 From: Martin Welk <mw@theatre.sax.de> To: Jonathan Down <cyber@geotec.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on amd? Message-ID: <19991211223038.D1091@theatre.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.944944765.cyber@backspin>; from cyber@geotec.net on Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 02:38:08PM -0600 References: <Chameleon.944944765.cyber@backspin>
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On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 02:38:08PM -0600, Jonathan Down wrote:
> What (if any) experience have you seen with people running FreeBSD on a AMD Athalon?
A collegue set up an K7/600 machine (if I remember right) with 256 mbytes
of memory (2 x 128 mb) with a MSI motherboard (MSI6167 or something like
that, they have only one Athlon board yet). It runs, and it runs very fast,
but he isn't satisfyied with stability yet. The RAM modules had to be
changed (they work on an Asus P2B-S with a P-II/350 now, and the (similar)
modules are on the MSI board) and although the documentation says so, he
had to take care to put the modules in the 1st and 2nd memory slot, when
they were in the 2nd and 3rd it didn't work well. And there was something
with Windows NT - although it wasn't the intention to use NT on this
machine, it was on the disk he first used and it didn't recognize the
network adapter (a D-Link 550TX or so, DEC21041 based, and we have a bunch
of them working fine in other machines).
Unfortunately there aren't many motherboards available yet, especially
nothing with SCSI onboard. We're looking for another motherboard now, may
be the Gigabyte K7 board is a good choice.
(As the faster Athlons will be produced in Dresden which is only about
30 km away, we have a kind of special interest of using those CPUs :-) )
Regards,
Martin
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