From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 1 20:56:46 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 CB9CE37B678 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: (from ler@localhost) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.10.1/8.10.1/20000616) id e623uPq14179; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:56:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman Message-Id: <200007020356.e623uPq14179@lerami.lerctr.org> Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 In-Reply-To: <20000702132043.X18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> "from Greg Lehey at Jul 2, 2000 01:20:43 pm" To: Greg Lehey Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:56:25 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Larry Rosenman , Bryan Liesner , 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 Saturday, 1 July 2000 at 22:40:34 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > >> 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. > > Unfortunately, that's the way things work here. You would probably > have been better off with the FreeBSD-questions list; the topic has > nothing to do with -STABLE, and there are fewer subscribers. Also, > note that people don't always have time to read the lists. I've just > got back from 3 weeks of travel, for example. I thought (since this all worked on the old P-90 board), that -STABLE MIGHT have been broken, so this is where I posted. I understand about people and time, but don't accuse me of not TRYING to get help. Larry > > Greg > -- > 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 -- 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