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From: curt@hoptoad.uucp (Curt Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: does the UMC chipset work with 386BSD?
Message-ID: <38855@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 13 Nov 92 22:11:21 GMT
References: <49432@shamash.cdc.com> <2399@adagio.lemis.uucp>
Organization: Hardcore Satanists for Unix
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In article <2399@adagio.lemis.uucp> grog@lemis.uucp (Greg Lehey) writes:
>In article <49432@shamash.cdc.com> pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas x4629) writes:
>>Has anyone heard of the UMC chipset?
>
>Well, I have just removed a 486/50 with UMC from my machine, and gone
>back to a 486/33 using an OPTI chip set. Nothing else changed - I had
>a different 486/33 OPTI board (same design, though) in there before.
>I'm running BSD/386.
>
>The OPTI board ran with no problems since March, and I installed the
>UMC board last week. On average, it crashed 5 times a day. This could
>be a defective board, of course, but I didn't have another board to
>compare it with.
>
another data point. I have a 486-50 with UMC chipset and AMI bios.
this puppy is fast and stable with stock 0.1 386bsd. I installed the patches
some time ago, and have not had one crash since trading in my OPTI.
oh yeah, I run X, NFS client and server, and do much compiling. the
AMI bios on this sucker allows me to set wait states to main memory and cache,
speed of the ISA bus, and the usual other stuff.
curt
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