Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:23:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Andrews <mandrews@termfrost.org> To: darrylo@sr.hp.com Cc: Mike Burgett <mburgett@cmnsens.zoom.com>, "hardware@freebsd.org" <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: K6 - New results.. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970819002037.1601A-100000@mindcrime.termfrost.org> In-Reply-To: <199708190320.AA263120833@mina.sr.hp.com>
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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Darryl Okahata wrote: > > Ok, I got my replacement K6-200 yesterday, after the distributor tried to say > > there was nothing wrong with the old chip (because they couldn't make it fail > > running windoze for a couple of hours... :( > > [ Sorry if this is old news, but I haven't seen this mentioned, yet. ] > > Just FYI, a Linux user has a page claiming that K6 systems with > more than 32MB RAM exhibit "signal 11" problems: > > http://www.creaweb.fr/bpc/k6bug.html > > Instructions for "reproducing" the problem on either Linux or WinNT are > given (although "make world" is probably good enough as anything ;-). Interesting... The two systems I had problems with had 64 meg of parity memory, however, I tried 32 meg of EDO and it didn't make any difference. And I briefly had one 64 meg system that worked. -- Mike Andrews (MA12) network & systems guy, Digital Crescent, Frankfort KY -- mandrews@dcr.net -- mandrews@termfrost.org -- http://www.termfrost.org/ -- "Evil shall always prevail over good, because evil has better marketing..." -- Sick of junk e-mail? Visit http://www.cauce.org/ or http://spam.abuse.net/
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