Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 11:36:54 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Funky Micron PP200 problems under 2.1 Message-ID: <199605181836.LAA25371@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 17 May 96 23:32:13 -0700. <199605180632.XAA01529@rah.star-gate.com>
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>> >On another note, anyone know where I might find a test program to see if th
e
>> >PCI chipset in this PP200 can sustain more than 5mb/sec ?
>>
>> If it doesn't, it's _severly_ broken.
>>
>> PCI is supposed to be capable of up to 133MB/s (~33MHz * 32-bits).
>Cough.... It has been known for a while now that the PCI chipset
>on the PPro has had it shares of problems and one of them being
>if memory does not fail me that writes to the PCI bus are limited
>to 5MB/sec.
Ouch! Well, like I said, _severely_ broken...
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