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Date:      Sat, 6 May 2000 01:29:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why would fxp be slower than ed?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.05.10005060121400.24686-100000@jason.argos.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000505222842.043b5e00@localhost>

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> upgraded from 16K to 24K of RAM at the same time and kernel memory 

24K?!?!  Wow!  How'd you get the kernel that small?  :)

I ran into a lot of PCI 486 boards that had "issues".  Keep in mind that
the PCI spec was fairly incomplete and open to the manufacturer's
interpretation as to how it should work.  I have a PCI 486 running as a
little internal web server that bogged down incredibly when I put a
Diamond PCI video card in it -- went back to the old ISA Trident 8900, and
things were back to normal.

There may be some BIOS config settings in there that may help - bus
priority/speed, IRQ designations, etc...  Depends on the board.

I'll bet you a shiny new penny (you pay for postage) that a cheap 75MHz
Pentium board would reverse the problem.  My fxp cards blow the socks off
the NE2K's that I replaced...

--mike




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