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From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
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Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550
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Yup, you're hitting the same ones, and the reason this box
is now Intel P-III 600E, Shuttle AV61 MB, 128MB ram (same stick
I've been using). 

I think AMD has an issue in the K6-2 series. 

I give up. 

Larry
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]

> Hey ya Larry
> 
> Just a quick question - *exactly* what was the symptoms of your problem?
> 
> ive just turned a K6-2 300 into a BSD box, and make world fails with SIG's
> 10, 11 and 12 randomly.  I know its not the memory - i have been thrashing
> that memory for 12 mths now - never skipped a beat.  The CPU / Motherboard /
> Memory used to run BSD in the 2.2.8 - 3.2 days no problems.  Now - no luck
> :(  - i get random panics, SIG 10's to 12's and core dumps - unfortunately -
> i have no idea how to debug them :(
> 
> 
> FYI - System specs
> 
> AMD K6-2 300 MHz
> Jetway 542-B Motherboard (AT)
> 64 meg PC-100
> Intel i740 video card
> 4.3 gig Maxtor HDD (IDE)
> Generic NIC
> 
> G.
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Greg Work
> Email: Greg@FatCanary.com.au
> --------------------------------------
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org>
> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 12:41 PM
> Subject: AMD K6-2 / 550
> 
> 
> > Well, I'm back...
> >    Put the AMD K6-2/550 on a ATX board (Shuttle HOT-597), and the 128MB
> memory.
> >
> > This power supply supposedly has enough beef to run the K6.
> >
> > Still have a problem with make world.
> >
> > HOWEVER, here is the strange part, if I turn SOFTUPDATES on, we can make
> worlds all day long
> > with out an error.
> >
> > Anyone got a good explanation for this?
> >
> > Also, the SCSI controller is a AHA-2940, with 1.11 firmware, if that makes
> a difference.
> >
> > Larry
> > --
> > Larry Rosenman                      http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
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