From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 18 18:26:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA05860 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (root@zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA05748; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:26:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (petzi@localhost) by zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id DAA05761; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 03:26:10 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 03:26:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: Michael Beckmann To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: spork@super-g.com, isp@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN history file and disk I/O In-Reply-To: <199609182104.OAA04861@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > Buyer beware, Gigabyte is playing games with the specifications and > register usage of the Triton-I and Triton-II chipsets to get away with > these 6 SIMM slots. These chip sets have 8 programmable DRAM row size > registers, each _SIDE_ of a SIMM requires one of them to be programmed, > you can _ONLY_ run 4 double sided simms with these chip sets. According to the HX manual you can use 6 SIMMs with 8 MB each in it, and these are double-sided. OTOH, who cares whether one can put 6 double sided SIMMs in it. There are so many valid combinations that I don't see this as a problem. The 586 ATE and HX mainboards I have used work just fine, I haven't seen one fail yet. That's just my personal experience. I'm not religious about mainboards, but I don't have the impression that Asus boards have significantly fewer bugs and problems. Gigabyte definitely belongs to the good equipment. > Gigabyte dirty little move is to _ONLY_ allow single sided SIMMS in 2 Wow, you make it sound as if Gigabyte were posessed by the wicked one ;-) Cheers, Michael