From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 26 05:54:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA05776 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 05:54:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA05758 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 05:54:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from owensc@localhost) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA19582; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 08:54:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 08:54:03 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Owens To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: How to identify ASUS PB-cache modules? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy, I recently bought several sytems containing ASUS P/I-P55TP4XE motherboards. When ordering, I asked for 512k pipline-burst cache. When picking up the systems, I thought to ask if they'd actually given me PB cache. I was told that 512k PB cache modules were not available, and that I'd been given async cache instead (grrrrrr). So, I get the systems back to the office, fire one up, and after all of the usual BIOS messages, I'm greeted with the message "Pipline Burst Cache"!! Can I trust this message? Do I in fact have PB cache? Are the guys who built the system really the yahoos that they seem to be? Taking a look at the module, I see that it bears the label: "CACHE MODULE CM1 REV 1.3". It has 4 Winbond W25P010AF-8 chips and one ISSI IS61C256AH-15J chip. Is this the right beastie? Thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------