Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:45:55 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, jehamby@lightside.com, current@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, toor@dyson.iquest.net Subject: Re: AMD doesn't like SNAP! (panic: unwire: page not in pmap) Message-ID: <199603121745.JAA13997@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199603120453.PAA25996@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 12, 96 03:23:32 pm
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> > Rodney W. Grimes stands accused of saying: > > > I noticed ASUS seems to have several other offerings besides the SP3G.. > > > > Such as what, the PVI-486AP4, out of production for 4 months, the only > > 486 board that I know ASUS is still makeing is the PVI-486SP3, which > > I do not classify as a good board due to only 2 Simm sockets and if I > > recall correctly a cache coherency problem in the Sis 496/497 chipset. > > Er, we have a PVI-486SP3 here; the SIMM limit is mildly annoying, but > (w/Intel DX4/100) appears to be rock-solid. > > The box in question has run multiple 'make world's; 16M/NCR SCSI etc. > > chip0 <SiS 85c496> rev 49 on pci0:5 > ncr0 <ncr 53c810 scsi> rev 2 int a irq 10 on pci0:11 > ... Humm.. what mode is your external cache set to... Write Through or Write Back? Perhaps SiS has fixed this in later revisions of the chip set, or I am confusing it with another chip set. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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