Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:53:04 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Cc: toasty@dragondata.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tyan Thunder 2400/i840 SMP no good Message-ID: <200006080553.WAA15952@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200006080131.SAA03748@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jun 7, 0 06:31:58 pm"
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As I recall, Mike Smith wrote: >> It wasn't until after I posted that I realized that I wasn't running >> -current. I am now, and I've gotten past the boot problems. >> >> However, I'm now seeing weird data corruption in RAM, spurious SIGBUS or >> SIGSEGV's, etc... I've replaced the RAM and CPUs and am still seeing it. I'm >> going to try a new ram vendor, as well as swapping motherboards next. >> >> Has anyone else experienced this on a similar system? I know the i840 is >> highly picky when it comes to SDRAM.... > > Yes. I've even see this with "high quality" SDRAM; the i840 board I'm > currently using has some cheap and nasty 64MB DIMMs which work fine, but > most of the "high quality" parts I've tried have failed miserably. Does this seem like a problem to anyone besides me? Given the MoBo's sold at Fry's with the memory sold at Fry's will run Windows98 without falling over in a way that is not clearly Windows fault, then we (FreeBSD) will look bad if we can't run on the same hardware. We can get some slack by saying we trapped a problem that would have resulted in an undetected data corruption under WinDoz, but that only goes so far. Can we claim (with a straight face) that there is a legitimate reason FreeBSD is more picky about its hardware platform than Windows/NT Server? If it were not, these MoBo/memory configurations would be being shoved back up the <expletive deleted> of the vendors when the customers tried to run the software package that is on 90% of the Intel boxen out there and failed. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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