Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 14:28:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: james@miller.cs.uwm.edu, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help! Message-ID: <199505182128.OAA15190@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199505182034.NAA15099@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 18, 95 01:34:55 pm
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> > [Moved to hackers list, please don't double post!!!] > > > > > related but I have no idea. I have now disabled the external cache and I > > > > am trying the make world again... It is a lot slower... > > > > > > If this is not the ASUS board, ignore me!! > > > > > > I have qualified and done extensive testing on the ASUS Triton board, it > > > does work. To this day I have probably completed over 100 make worlds > > > on these boards. I see you are running a 100Mhz CPU chip, are you also > > > running 60nS DRAM as required by the motherboard book. Have you left > > > the BIOS settings on the default values, or have you tried to speed > > > things up by tweaking them?? > > > > I am running 32 Meg of 70ns EDO DRAM (this was all that was available a > > month ago) with 12ns async cache with a SuperMicro mother board and AMI bios. > > I havn't tweaked much of anything. I think the problem might be the external > > cache speed in my case. My system has been running for almost 2.5 hrs now with > > the external cache disabled and make world is just about finished. > > Unless SuperMicro has pulled some time out of the memory setup in the > chip set you *MUST* run 60nS Simms, I don't care if they are EDO or not, > I was able to get 60nS EDO a month ago, but not in 16MB parts. I have > rumor that Samsung is now making EDO in 50, 60 and 70nS parts. I just came up with something I should have had you try in the first place. Reset the motherboard for a 90Mhz CPU instead of turning the cache off. This will let us know if it is memory speed problems due to using 70nS parts with a 100Mhz CPU. I feel so stupid for not thinking about this before <:-(. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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