From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jul 17 23:43: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7BE37B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (deepthought.blinkenlights.nl [62.58.162.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E606C43E42 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:43:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sten@blinkenlights.nl) Received: by deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix, from userid 500) id 02003C1; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:43:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE064C123; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:43:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:43:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Sten To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: machine checks on a AlphaPC 164LX In-Reply-To: <15669.57930.427134.220183@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > I've got a PC164LX which will crash with a machine check under heavy > disk IO to its on-board CMD 646 ATA controller. well the onboard ata is so amazingly slow that I wouldnt recommend using it. The problem however is that promise and other cards arent bootable. You would either have to boot from floppy or use a scsi adaptor to boot. You've updated the srm, and arent running current ? :) -- Sten Spans "What does one do with ones money, when there is no more empty rackspace ?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message