From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 22 12:40:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA02067 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA02028; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00698; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199609221940.MAA00698@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: INN history file and disk I/O In-Reply-To: from Andreas Klemm at "Sep 22, 96 08:08:46 pm" To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Cc: isp@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] 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 > Hi Rod ! > > What do you think about the Tyan boards ? Tomcat I and II ? >From the data sheets they look fine, from what others have been saying about success with using them they look fine. First hand I don't have any experience, though that will be changing soon enough. > > I bought a Tomcat II for my wife. It always rebooted when enabling > the L2 cache. My hardware dealer, which has good connections to Tyan, > told me after 3 days (fast! ;) that the mainboard had a defect and > a whole charge of 512k burst cache modules was bad as well. > > Now I have to wait for a new Tomcat II and L2 cache for about a week. > I get brand new parts from US... > > I'm just curious, if I bought a good or a bad one. Test in magazines > tell, that the boards are ok, only problems with 64MB Ram chips ... > > What do you think ?! Question to a MB guru ! ;-)) > > Andreas /// > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD