From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 11 18:37:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDFD14E21 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 18:37:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA07762; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:05:14 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA55085; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:05:13 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990412110512.E2142@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:05:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Missouri FreeNet Administration Cc: rick hamell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: k6-2/400 and 2.2x References: <19990412093141.T2142@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Missouri FreeNet Administration on Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 07:24:47PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 wrote: > >> 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message