From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 06:48:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA05221 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 06:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA05216 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 06:48:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA15608; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:42:32 -0500 (EST) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199611051442.JAA15608@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: Cyrix vs. Intel To: dwlewis@intervista.com (David Lewis) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:42:32 -0500 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-questions) In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961104184719.0076837c@mail.intervista.com> from "David Lewis" at Nov 4, 96 06:47:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hey, > > Does anyone know if there are problems using the new Cyrix chips with > FreeBSD and/or Linux?? I assume not, but I really don't want to buy a > Cyrix-based machine if it's not going to work properly with either of those > OS's. > > Thanks. > > -David > Well, my VESA motherboard came with the Cyrix chip -- (the 586-100) -- but the board wouldn't run with the 586. The problem was it would recognize and identify the Adaptec 1542 controller and SCSI drives -- but wouldn't read/write the busmastering controller. IT worked fine with the IDE C: drive (dos/os2). I dropped a 486/DX2 66 in and it all works. With internal and external cache off -- it worked SLOWLY... and not from the OS/2 boot mgr... Be careful. I'm going to reattempt the 586 insert and play with the cache jumpers -- since it's probably the Cyrix write-back cache. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com This message brought to you by the letters VAX and the numbers 11 and 780.