From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Apr 14 18: 5:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from friley-185-206.res.iastate.edu (friley-185-206.res.iastate.edu [129.186.185.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C66DB14C8B for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:05:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cc@137.org) Received: from friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu (friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu [129.186.185.205]) by friley-185-206.res.iastate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE3A9F; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:03:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E72122; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:03:30 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: tls@rek.tjls.com Cc: Jason Thorpe , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: many cheap PC164 boards -- gret for NetBSD (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:05:42 EDT." <19990414190542.A1460@rek.tjls.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:03:30 -0500 From: Chris Csanady Message-Id: <19990415010330.E8E72122@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:59:19PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:26:25 -0400 >> "Koscielny, Wally" 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