Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:51:48 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov> Cc: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6 Message-ID: <199707141551.IAA07685@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:39:20 PDT." <199707141539.IAA11025@george.lbl.gov>
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>The ADM K6, generally, works on most new motherboards. The key is that it has >to be HX or TX PCI chipset based motherboard. If you use other PCI chipset, >such as VX, it is not guaranted to work. >The ASUS PCI-P/I-P55TVP4 is the bottum line, and ASUS TX97 is very reliable one. The motherboard it is currently on is a new ASUS TX97-E which has specific support for the K6. The previous motherboard was a "Shuttle HOT-555", which also has specific support for the K6. The symptoms are the same on both motherboards: at some random point through a "make world", it will fail with bizzare errors (like missing semicolon or invalid character). As I said in a previous message, the chip worked fine for the first 10 or so make worlds and then began to fail. I've now heard from 5 other people who have had identical experiance with FreeBSD, and some other people that run Linux who had a similar experiance. This seems to indicate that there is some kind of failure mode in the K6 which shows up after a few weeks of use. I've also heard a rumor that the newest K6 chips don't seem to suffer from this (yet?). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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