From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 14 02:41:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04253 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:41:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peedub.muc.de (newpc.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04244 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:41:11 GMT (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA11264 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:41:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199804140941.LAA11264@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps segfaults since I overclocked. and worries. Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:46:32 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:41:36 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephen Roome writes: >It was probably worth mentioning a long time ago that this isn't an Intel >chipset based board: > >ide_pci0: rev 0x06 on >pci0.7.1 > >Hypothetically : > >If I purchase a 6x86 that is supposed to run at 188Mhz, and hence a bus >speed of 75Mhz (and run it on this board - an FIC PA2007) does this mean >that the frequency the IDE devices are clocked at is greater than 30 or >33Mhz ? > >If so, then would a correctly configured system still work as you say? As >this isn't what the comment in the code implies to me. > IIRC, from a recent article in c't magazine, some motherboards, even though using a chipset which supposedly supports asynchronous bus clocks, do not set the chipset up correctly (a BIOS problem, usually). And some chipsets which claim to provide such support, do not really do so. Unfortunately, I don't have the magazine here. They tested a whole slew of motherboards, and this was a problem in many cases. Can't remember whether VIA/FIC was one of the bad guys. Of course, it seems like a "correctly configured" system should work. The big question is, whether the manufacturer does the setup correctly. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message