From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 16 1:42:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B18137B699 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 01:42:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id f0G9g2q85058 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:42:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (root@[134.157.10.102]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.11.1/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id f0G9g1324186 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:42:01 +0100 (MET) Received: (from michel@localhost) by rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0G9g1a00569 for FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:42:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michel) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:42:01 +0100 From: Michel Talon To: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release Message-ID: <20010116104201.B503@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200101160240.f0G2eNR95008@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200101160240.f0G2eNR95008@grumpy.dyndns.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:40:23PM -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. Strange because i have here installed FreeBSD 4.2-Stable on an Abit KT7 Raid which has the same chipset, and runs an Athlon 1.1 Ghz. I have loaded all optimal settings in the Bios to enhance speed, and all works beautifully, including UDMA speed for the disk (here a Western Digital). -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message