Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:17:11 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ECS-K7S5A motherboard stability issues Message-ID: <3C1DAA07.5080504@owt.com> References: <20011217023844.C333@rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca>
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Munish Chopra wrote: > About a month ago I got a hold of my new machine: > > ECS-K7S5A motherboard > Thunderbird 1200 > 256 MB DDR-SDRAM > 40GB IBM HD > NVIDIA GF2 MX/400 64MB video card > (that should be all the important stuff) > > Now, I've been having some rather nasty stability issues with this > machine, and was wondering whether anyone out there has been having the > same type of issues. > > It seems to 'randomly reboot', like it did just five minutes ago. At > first I thought these were related to I/O or so (FTP transfers would > cause lockups/reboots, watching movies too, though I suspect this is an > mplayer stability issue), but now they just seem to occur whenever they > feel like. My uptime before the last one was just above three days, the > longest I've had it running. Make sure you have all of the cards seated properly. This board really makes you work at that. I have three of them running. Two have 1600+ XP's and the 3rd has a 900 T'Bird. I am not having any stability problems. The 1600+ will do a buildworld in less than 30 minutes. I am also running 256MB of DDR memory. > > Additionally (and this might be the source of the problem, I don't > know), my ATA100 controller is only recognized as ATA33, dmesg output: > > atapci0: <SiS 5591 ATA33 controller> port 0xff00-0xff0f at device 2.5 on > pci0 There are some changes that were just made to ata-dma.c and ata-pci.c (ata-all.c on stable) that will make it run as a ATA100. When you add them to a -stable system, they run about 10% slower than an Promise Ultra-100 but they do run as a ATA100 controller. For example, atapci0: <SiS 5591 ATA100 controller> port 0xff00-0xff0f at device 2.5 on pci0 Kent > > I saw a thread on -hackers a few weeks ago that might resolve the > controller issue, but I'm not sure. Any pointers or hints would be > appreciated (or if I in some way can give you necessary information, > please tell me). Sorry about the rather lame report, I haven't had time > to dig around though. > > Please cc me on replies, not currently subscribed. > > Thanks. > > -- > -Munish > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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