Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 11:44:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Greg Work <Greg@FatCanary.com.au> Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 Message-ID: <20000702114422.Q18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <003d01bfe3af$3c72c640$0200a8c0@gwork.org.au> References: <200006280311.e5S3BWb28882@lerami.lerctr.org> <003d01bfe3af$3c72c640$0200a8c0@gwork.org.au>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Sunday, 2 July 2000 at 8:23:55 +0930, Greg Work wrote: > On Wednesday, June 28, 2000 12:41 PM, "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org> wrote: >> 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. > > 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. You mean it never discovered a problem? What software were you running? > 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 :( If they're hardware related, there's probably not much to see except that things will be different each time. I suspect that a large number of crashes on Microsoft machines are in fact due to flaky hardware. Despite my low opinion of Microsoft, I have not had an unexpected crash of a Microsoft system in years (it helps, of course, if you don't use them much :-). Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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