Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86-166+ problems (?)
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/07/1997 09:36:36
> a while ago a friend of mine reported problems getting 1.2.1 to
> work on a Cyrix-based box.  Recently I had the "pleasure" of
> trying to install NetBSD-current (1.2G) as of less than a week
> ago on a system claiming to have a 6x86-P166+ CPU at 133MHz.
> It's a system with 3 IDE disks, 2 SCSI disks on an Adaptec 1542
> and a PCI bus.  As far as I know the bus-dma updated adaptec
> driver should be included in this kernel.

I was running NetBSD on 6x86 for about 6 months with zero problems.
The machine was purchased in December 1996.  Last month, I replaced
the motherboard and CPU to get a better performance (I now run
windoze on the Cyrix CPU).

Just FYI.

  -jm


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