From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 8 22:31:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA08478 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 22:31:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre.goldsword.com (sabre.goldsword.com [199.170.202.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA08473 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 22:31:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jfarmer@localhost) by sabre.goldsword.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA28545; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 01:33:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 01:33:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "John T. Farmer" Message-Id: <199708090533.BAA28545@sabre.goldsword.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD K6 Cc: jfarmer@goldsword.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 08 Aug 1997 21:40:40 -0700 John Milford said: >Randy Katz wrote: >> How does FreeBSD see it? As a 686? As a 586? Does it work? Are there >> problems? >> > There seem to have been very mixed reviews. I had some >problems with spontanious reboots early on, but found this was linked >to having a linear voltage regulator. The K6 draws 7.5 Amps according >to AMD and this is enough that you must have a switching reulator. I >have a K6/200, and it has been flawless for the past week although >because of a flacky motherboard (Yes I have proof) it has been running >w/ no external cache. I got the board replaced w/ an ASUS P55T2S4 >today and I am planning to report back on it after running for a >while. BTW, even without the 512k external cache it was pretty snappy. > This is good news! Please, by all means, let us know how it works out. Hmmm, perhaps I can hold off on some of these new servers for a week or so.... John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Proprietor, GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com Public Internet Access in East Tennessee dial-in (423)470-9953 for info, e-mail to info@goldsword.com Network Design, Internet Services & Servers, Consulting