Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 22:54:20 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> To: alex fuchsstadt <afuchs@totum.plaut.de> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: overclocking Message-ID: <19970611225420.26050@mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970611100303.9034B-100000@totum.plaut.de>; from alex fuchsstadt on Wed, Jun 11, 1997 at 10:11:27AM %2B0200 References: <20071.866011725@verdi.nethelp.no> <Pine.BSF.3.95.970611100303.9034B-100000@totum.plaut.de>
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On Jun 11, alex fuchsstadt <afuchs@totum.plaut.de> wrote: > I read all the mails about the overclocking theme and it turned to some > different but interesting ones. > I had a NCR 53C810 too and it died while working with fBSD, I suddenly got > a message like: NCR died ......... Well, there is no test for a "dead" NCR chip in the code, so you can only have received a message from the timeout handler, which warns if no progress has been made for some time. > I bought a new one and run it without any problems. I had a 486 ASUS > motherboard before with one integrated NCR also running without > anyproblems. > Anyone else there having problems with suddenly died NCRs? I have heard of just a few defective NCR chips over the last three years. Symptons were different: From complete failure (system won't start with controller card installed) to a data pattern dependent lockup (one NCR card could not extract some NetBSD distribution file: Writing a certain data pattern lead to a PCI bus error interrupt, and thus one file could not be written to disk; replacing the NCR, card solved that ...) Most of the problems I've heard of should have been covered by the SCSI card's warranty. Regards, STefanhome | help
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