Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:03:30 -0500 From: Chris Csanady <cc@137.org> To: tls@rek.tjls.com Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: many cheap PC164 boards -- gret for NetBSD (fwd) Message-ID: <19990415010330.E8E72122@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:05:42 EDT." <19990414190542.A1460@rek.tjls.com>
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>On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:59:19PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:26:25 -0400 >> "Koscielny, Wally" <Wally.Koscielny@gs.com> wrote: >> >> > Since the special power supply is 100.00 I rather just spend the extra mo ney >> > and get a better board and a faster chip. >> >> ...except the PC164 has more memory bandwidth if you fill the SIMM >> slots than the PC164LX. To me, the PC164 is a "better board" for that >> reason :-) > >Not quite so notoriously buggy, either -- though that shouldn't be an issue >with a late-production 164LX board. Actually, even on the later revision boards I think the PCI is broken with the LX. I believe it was fixed on the miatas, but even the rev c alphapc's are still broke. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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