From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jul 18 6: 8:29 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 D515B37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 06:08:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195A443E5E for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 06:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA20758; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:08:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g6ID7tk54927; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:07:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15670.48555.285297.568536@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:07:55 -0400 (EDT) To: Sten Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: machine checks on a AlphaPC 164LX In-Reply-To: References: <15669.57930.427134.220183@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid 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 Sten writes: > 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 Actually, an LX's onboard ATA is not that bad (10MB/sec). At least it does DMA. What you really want to stay away from is the SX's (or Miata, or XP1000, or DS20) cypress chip, which only does PIO. > and other cards arent bootable. You would either > have to boot from floppy or use a scsi adaptor to boot. Yeah, I know. > You've updated the srm, and arent running current ? :) Yep. RELENG_4. And the latest SRM as of Jan. I don't think they are updating the SRM much for LXs anymore. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message