From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 4 13:21:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8451E37B765 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:21:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: (from ler@localhost) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.10.1/8.10.1/20000703) id e64KLCj05745; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:21:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman Message-Id: <200007042021.e64KLCj05745@lerami.lerctr.org> Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 In-Reply-To: <48265.962741737@localhost> "from Jordan K. Hubbard at Jul 4, 2000 01:15:37 pm" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:21:12 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Larry Rosenman , Greg Lehey , Greg Work , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL79 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Let's put it this way, I've posted a NUMBER of items to the -stable list > > over the last 2-4 weeks as I've fought this one. I can't get a > > CPU/BIOS/MB with a K6-2/550 on it to SUCCESSFULLY/RELIABLY make world. > > Well, it's certainly a hardware problem of some sort since we have > literally dozens of K6-2 systems here - we built a cluster of them for > package building and have a bunch of them also serving in various > FreeBSD desktop roles. They all work flawlessly, from FreeBSD 3.x all > the way up to 5.0-current. Where the hardware problem is with your > system is, of course, almost impossible to diagnose remotely but rest > assured that it is NOT a software issue. I'm also not saying that you > implied such was the case, I just wanted to state such publically and > for the record. I understand that, Jordan. I was hoping to get it fixed, but couldn't get the combo's THAT I HAD AVAILABLE to work. I wasn't implying that it was a S/W problem, just an interaction of hardware. I would have loved to get it working, BUT, ran out of patience. the system now has a P-III 600E in it, and runs flawlessly (little slower on SETI units, but...). Larry Rosenman > > - Jordan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 (voice) Internet: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message