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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
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