[rescue] "New" SPARCserver 20

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, June 21, 2001 at 09:24:17 (-0400), Joshua D. Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] "New" SPARCserver 20
>
> Since putting in the PCI soundcard, I've never had the machine crash
> without it being under load though.

That's not surprising at all.  The ISA bus is an extremely bad design
(it did, after all, just grow out of some skunk-works project at IBM,
and the "growth" was organically driven by clone makers until someone
finally got IEEE to at least declare the status quo to stop all the
bickering).

ISA stuff never worked very well all on its own, let alone when bridged
with/from other buses.  (Though at least part of the problem is the
stupid idiotic brain-dead interrupt controller's fault.)

BTW, a Tyan motherboard probably isn't what most people would call
"good" either.  It might be fast, and it might be relatively bug free,
but that doesn't mean it's good engineering.  Intel's about the only
company that makes OEM motherboards that make it past one production run
(either that or they manage their stockpiles better).  Even last time I
tried to buy a decent clone DEC-Alpha board (Samsung, IIRC) I was told
that there were only about 30 units left in all of North America and
that the production line had been switched to the "new" model so no more
would be forthcoming.

> I didn't take the time to check /var/log/messages last night since I was
> in a hurry to leave for a nightclub.

Are you sure you belong in this group?  :-)  Oh, you have a real life! ;-)


BTW, Josh (and everyone else who doesn't do so),


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							Greg A. Woods

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