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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:23:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
To:        Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
Cc:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors
Message-ID:  <20010910112039.A24780-100000@warez.scriptkiddie.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B8F1A7B.3040708@quack.kfu.com>

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(sorry this is a little stale)

I've got a K7M with K7T/900 slot A processor with a 39160 SCSI card in it
and a 36GB SCSI drive and it works just fine.  Its dual boot, but I get
uptimes of up to a week with no problems with freezing.

Maybe its the memory or powersupply with your K7M boards?

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Nick Sayer wrote:
> Darryl Okahata wrote:
>
> >      Yeah.  As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133
> > chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such
> > motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the
> > difference?).  For more info, check out:
>
> I second this. I bought two K7M motherboards and had terrible times with
> them when they had Adaptec 29160s installed. They would freeze solid
> regardless of what OS they ran. I ended up swapping them out with Socket
> A motherboards (also Asus). The new Asus boards work fine with SCSI
> cards, and the old ones work fine so long as they have ATA disks in them.
>
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