From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 16 17:25:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-41.knology.net [24.214.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EEF637B6A0 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:25:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0H1PPE15678; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:25:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200101170125.f0H1PPE15678@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mark Thomas Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release In-reply-to: Message from Mark Thomas of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:48:53 EST." <5.0.2.1.2.20010115224747.020d4ad0@mail.clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:25:25 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Thomas writes: > At 08:40 PM 1/15/01 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > >For this MB to run reliably under load I had to select "BIOS Defaults", > >and maybe also "System Performance Setting" from "Optimal" to "Normal". > >Also disabled "PCI Master Read Caching" and "Delayed Transaction". > >Something in there was causing problems under load. The situation might > >also surface during installation. > > I had issues with this MB under W98 that a BIOS flash helped resolve > (I think up to 1004). It seems very picky about shared interrupts, > particularly with the ATA/100 controller. Once FreeBSD is running what does the BIOS have to do with it? Or does the BIOS initialize something that FreeBSD otherwise doesn't mess with? Don't know how but managed to juggle IRQ's until the onboard ATA-100 got IRQ 10 all to itself. Altho it didn't seem to matter. Its running solid now so I'm not going to mess with it. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message