From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 12 09:49:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA01211 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:49:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA01201 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:49:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA13997; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:45:55 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199603121745.JAA13997@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: AMD doesn't like SNAP! (panic: unwire: page not in pmap) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:45:55 -0800 (PST) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, jehamby@lightside.com, current@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, toor@dyson.iquest.net In-Reply-To: <199603120453.PAA25996@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 12, 96 03:23:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 rev 49 on pci0:5 > ncr0 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