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From: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors
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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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