From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 16 17:28:11 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 ABC9237B69F for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:27:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0H1RjE15693; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:27:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200101170127.f0H1RjE15693@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Michel Talon Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release In-reply-to: Message from Michel Talon of "Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:42:01 +0100." <20010116104201.B503@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:27:45 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michel Talon writes: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:40:23PM -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. > > Strange because i have here installed FreeBSD 4.2-Stable on an Abit KT7 Raid > which has the same chipset, and runs an Athlon 1.1 Ghz. I have loaded all > optimal settings in the Bios to enhance speed, and all works beautifully, > including UDMA speed for the disk (here a Western Digital). I probably incorrectly placed the blame completely on the MB when I don't really know my PCI cards are PCI 2.2 compliant, or what that involves. I think the BIOS values I tweaked to produce a reliable system were PCI related. -- 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