> On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Jochen Buehler wrote:
>
> > Dave J. Andruczyk writes:
> > > > I'm thinking about buying a used PC to use programs like exmh, gvim,
> > > > latex in an X11 environment with Linux. Now somebody offered a dual
> > > > Pentium 233 MMX computer for maybe 100-150 USD more than the price of a
> > > > used single Pentium 233MMX PC...
> > [...]
> > > > The PC in question has a Gigabyte GA586 DX mainboard.
> > >
> > > its not just for programmers. an SMP machine will give you a boost if you
> > > keep it busy enough, (generally). NOTE there are BUGS with some Gigabyte
> > > GA586DX motherboards, and you should consult the archives, as I beleive
> > > either the MTRR and or BIOS patches need to be applied to make these
> > > boards behave properly.
> >
> > The PentiumII boards may be buggy 686BX/DX, not the 586DX which is
> > fine.
>
> The 586DX had its own problems, mainly IDE failures with the IO-APIC code.
> (Has this been fixed? When the problem persisted from 2.1.85 to
> 2.1.90-something, I went SCSI and haven't looked back...)
>
> Adam
>
Well I was the person suffering IDE problems, and I used 2.1.99 +
ide.patch a long time until I could switch to 2.1.11x (.115?) and
now I have used 2.1.122 with some hard locks while I'm in X XFree
3.3.(0,1?) with no logs and SysRq didn't work, but althought this
quirks the system works OK, and there aren't IDE corruptions anymore.
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