From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 18 11:38:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA13344 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 11:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@[199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA13339 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 11:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA25371; Sat, 18 May 1996 11:36:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199605181836.LAA25371@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." cc: Charles Henrich , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Funky Micron PP200 problems under 2.1 In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 17 May 96 23:32:13 -0700. <199605180632.XAA01529@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 11:36:54 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >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... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------