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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:05:12 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Missouri FreeNet Administration <measl@mfn.org>
Cc:        rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: k6-2/400 and 2.2x
Message-ID:  <19990412110512.E2142@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990411191600.398A-100000@pub2.mfn.org>; from Missouri FreeNet Administration on Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 07:24:47PM -0500
References:  <19990412093141.T2142@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990411191600.398A-100000@pub2.mfn.org>

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On Sunday, 11 April 1999 at 19:24:47 -0500, Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:31:41 +0930, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> What kind of disks and controller are you using?
>
> Controllers are on the motherboard (Asus P5A-B).

So these are normal IDE, right?

>> What chipset?
>
> ALi AGPset.  100mhz front end bus, Western Digital 1.6gb IDE drive,

Ah, yes.

> Standard 3.5" Mitsumi floppy, 32mb of 100mhz SDRAM, Generic 4 mb PCI video
> card, SMC800x Network Card: all known to be good.  As I said, this system,
> unchanged, boots and runs NT4/SP4, RHL 5.2, etc...
>
>> Does it freeze, or does it hang?
>
> It hangs.  CTL-ALT-DEL still reboots, numlock still functions, etc.  It
> appears to read the first boot sector before dying.
>
>> Does it still occur if you go back to a 66 MHz bus speed?
>
> Unknown right now: I will try it later this weekend.

It's a thing to check.

>> I suppose it's possible that there is an incompatibility with 2.2.5R,
>> just that we haven't seen it, and it's unlikely to be directly related
>> to the processor.  But it would still make sense to install
>> FreeBSD-3.1, since you're not going to get much help following a real
>> bug in 2.2.5.
>
> I wasn't aware that 3.1 was out: 

It was released in January.  It's a *big* change from 2.2.

> Is there continuing support for 2.2.8R?

No.

> We are *very* pleased with the 2.2.x series, and are not exactly
> thrilled at changing over to the 3.x line... (Why fix something
> thats not only not [usually] broken, but usually picture perfect???)

No reason, but I was referring to the possibility of it being broke.

Greg
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