From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning) Subject: Re: AMD386 vs. Intel386 & external cache problems Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:13:26 GMT
In article <1992Aug14.084810.20876@news.th-darmstadt.de> herr@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Gabor Herr) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.190649.7668@athena.mit.edu>, tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
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>> Well, have a AMD 386 40 MHz motherboard, ETEQ chipset, 128k cache, 16 MB
>> memory --- and I haven't had any problems at all. Perhaps your board
>> was just defective; did you try asking your dealer to swap your
>> motherboard for another one with the same configuration?
>>
>> - Ted
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>How do you explain the same errors on two completely different mainboards? The
>boards I tested had only one common factor: the AMD 386.
>
>Gabor
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>Gabor Herr Email: herr@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
>Computer Science Department
>Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
I am also running Linux quite succesfully (along with OS/2 2.0) on an Opti
motherboard (AMD386/40, 64k cache, Opti chipset).