Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 15:23:26 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com> Cc: techadm@elvisti.kiev.ua, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS P6/Pro MB and P6-200 Message-ID: <199512292323.PAA02917@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Dec 95 14:43:38 EST." <199512291943.OAA10908@rk.ios.com>
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>> The biggest problem with the ASUS P6 motherboard is the poor PCI >> performance. DMA writes to memory are very slow because the PCI write buffer >> is disabled. It's disabled to work around a bug in the Intel Orion chipset >> that causes the data to get corrupted if it is enabled. With it disabled, the >> top performance of PCI DMA writes to memory is about 4.4MB/sec. This is too >> slow for fast (100Mbit) ethernet, for example, and causes half of the packets >> to get dropped. > > Hmmm ... interesting ... does it mean that those ppl from ASUS > will come up with some workaround for it later - when the problem > will be fixed , or I will have to live with this sad limit ? :) A question that we both eagerly await an answer to. :-) All indications at this time are that they *will* upgrade the motherboard when the problem is fixed. -DG
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