From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 1 20:40:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B4337BC77 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:40:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: (from ler@localhost) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.10.1/8.10.1/20000616) id e623eYX13655; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:40:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman Message-Id: <200007020340.e623eYX13655@lerami.lerctr.org> Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 In-Reply-To: "from Bryan Liesner at Jul 1, 2000 11:22:15 pm" To: Bryan Liesner Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:40:34 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Larry Rosenman , Greg Lehey , Greg Work , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL79 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > >Let's put it this way, I've posted a NUMBER of items to the -stable list > >over the last 2-4 weeks as I've fought this one. I can't get a > >CPU/BIOS/MB with a K6-2/550 on it to SUCCESSFULLY/RELIABLY make world. > > > >I'm tired of fighting it. > > It's got to be flaky hardware somewhwere, Larry. I'm running an AMD > K6-2/500 here on a Soyo Super 7 motherboard with a single 128M stick > of SDRAM. I just finished a make world today (1hr 20m total time) and > it never gave me so much as a hiccup. I usually make world once a > week around this time and it has never failed on this configuration. Fine. I suspect something in the Shuttle board/Bios Combo, then. As I said, I couldn't get 2 different Shuttle Boards, and a couple of instances of each, to make it work. I just didn't have the time to devote to finding a solution that WORKED. I *DID* post, and HOPED for a response like this one over the last month or so. Today is the first dialog I've had off the list with answers. Larry > > > ========================================================== > = Bryan D. Liesner LeezSoft Communications, Inc. = > = A subsidiary of LeezSoft Inc. = > = bleez@bellatlantic.net Home of the Gipper = > ========================================================== > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 (voice) Internet: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message