From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 15 19:48: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net [129.250.36.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F91F37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:47:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [129.250.38.61] (helo=dfw-mmp1.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net with esmtp id 14IN64-0004Sm-00; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 03:47:48 +0000 Received: from [168.143.2.191] (helo=leviathan.clark.net) by dfw-mmp1.email.verio.net with esmtp id 14IN63-0004VE-00; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 03:47:47 +0000 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010115224747.020d4ad0@mail.clark.net> X-Sender: thomas@mail.clark.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:48:53 -0500 To: David Kelly , dlt@mebtel.net From: Mark Thomas Subject: Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200101160240.f0G2eNR95008@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <867l3wfiqr.fsf@lorne.arm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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