Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:48:53 -0500 From: Mark Thomas <thomas@clark.net> To: David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org>, dlt@mebtel.net Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010115224747.020d4ad0@mail.clark.net> In-Reply-To: <200101160240.f0G2eNR95008@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <Message from Derek Tattersall <dlt@mebtel.net> <867l3wfiqr.fsf@lorne.arm.org>
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At 08:40 PM 1/15/01 -0600, David Kelly wrote: >Derek Tattersall writes: >> I have a 1 GHz Thunderbird (Athlon) on an ASUS A7V Via KT133 chipset >> with an IBM ultra 100 30 Gig Hard drive. If I let the HDD be auto >> detected, 4.2 Release terminates at the point it is going to partition >> the drive. If I set the HDD for LBA with all the options disabled, >> it reboots in the middle of the boot sequence, after the "press enter >> to boot now prompt". > >I boot my 800 MHz A7V from SCSI. And replaced the MB out from under an >installed system. 9G on SCSI, 45G Maxtor on the on-board ATA-100. > >For this MB to run reliably under load I had to select "BIOS Defaults", >and maybe also "System Performance Setting" from "Optimal" to "Normal". >Also disabled "PCI Master Read Caching" and "Delayed Transaction". >Something in there was causing problems under load. The situation might >also surface during installation. I had issues with this MB under W98 that a BIOS flash helped resolve (I think up to 1004). It seems very picky about shared interrupts, particularly with the ATA/100 controller. Mark --- thomas@clark.net ---> http://www.clark.net/pub/thomas PBEM Eldritch --------> http://www.pbegames.com [TM4463-ORG] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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