Is this one of those situations where speculative processing needs to be
disabled? Any chance your L2 cache size/type/frequency multiplier are
wrong? Did you remove the L3 (if any) from the motherboard?

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Bruce O'Neel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've recently gotten a Sonnet G4 /350 PCI Upgrade card for my 7300 and I am
> not having the greatest luck getting it to work.
>
> It boots, and runs for a while, but, once I load it down (say start a
>  build.sh and untar a file from a nfs disk) it crashes.  It never seems to
> crash with the same result and things like the compiler start segfaulting
> and gzip complains about bad CRCs.
>
> It could be bad memory, I guess, but I've swapped the memory in and out
> and it all seems ok.  I don't have MacOS so I didn't ever load the
> Sonnet install diskettes, that might be the problem.  I also thought
> maybe it might be network traffic but that turns out not to be the case.
>
> I'm running current built with -mtune=7400 (both kernel and userland)
> and I also have a kernel built -mcpu=7400 with the L2 cache turned
> on.
>
> Am I missing something obvious, or, is this just a case where sometimes
> a PCI upgrade just doesn't work.
>
> Thanks very any ideas in advance!
>
> cheers
>
> bruce
>
>

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