From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 12 10:17:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA02987 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:17:18 -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 KAA02977 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:17:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA14081; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:15:03 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199603121815.KAA14081@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: AMD doesn't like SNAP! (panic: unwire: page not in pmap) To: iain@heist.demon.co.uk (Iain Baird) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:15:03 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603121536.PAA16767@heist.demon.co.uk> from "Iain Baird" at Mar 12, 96 03:36:48 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 said: > > > Can you recommend a good 486 motherboard (preferably PCI)? > > > > Nope, IMHO, there are no _good_ 486 boards left on the market, the last > > _good_ 486 PCI board I could get was the ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G and I have not > > been able to get any more of them. > > FYI, I have a Gigabyte GA486-AMS. It has been rock solid with > 2.1.0-RELEASE and AHA-2940 using both AMD DX4-120 and AMD 5x86-133 > with L1 and L2 write back enabled. I had to upgrade to the latest > BIOS to get support for the 5x86. > > I don't know whether this meets Rod's criteria for a _good_ board, > but it works well for me. Gigabyte stopped production of 486 boards in January, or so I was told by my local Gigabyte distributor. The -AMS was a reasonable board, but fell short on performance when compared to the ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G on memory intensive benchmarks. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD