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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!platinum.sge.net!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!ais.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.uoregon.edu!xmission!sverige.pengar.com!user From: chad@pengar.com (Chad Leigh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any problems with the Cyrix cpus? Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 20:43:43 -0600 Organization: Pengar Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <chad-2706972043430001@sverige.pengar.com> References: <33b10877.87326905@netnews.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sverige.pengar.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43666 In article <33b10877.87326905@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, osas@worldnet.att.net (Tim White) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm upgrading a clients workstation to a Cyrix 166+ with 512k cache. I'd > like to know in advance if there is any problem with the Cyrix cpus. Just > want to be sure you know...release is 2.2.1. TIA. I've been running a few Cyrix machines with FreeBSD 2.1.x . The only problems I've had have been getting a Cyrix P200+ to run with my SCSI adapters. The P200+ runs the system board at 75mhz and the PCI at 37.5 (non spec) instead of 33mhz. (Some of) my PCI cards (an ASUS-200 NCR based SCSI, 2 Kingston DEC 21041 based 10baseT and an adaptec 2940UW) do not like the higher speed on the PCI bus. As soon as high I/O happens (like when I was trying to rebuild a kernel today) come bus errors / core dumps. Backing down to a P166+ on the same machine got rid of the problems. My P150+ and P166+ based machiens at 2.1.x have run fine for the last 8 months non stop (except for reboots when I changed some hardware or upgraded some sofwtare). Two of my Cyrix machines were up over 100 days straight doing email and WWW when I did some upgrades that required a reboot... best Chad