Re: PCI+PPro question

Uwe Bonnes (bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de)
Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:48:08 +0100


>>>>> "John" == John David Regehr <jdr8d@cs.virginia.edu> writes:

John> Hi, all. The PCI bridge (Orion chipset) on a P6 we have seems to
John> be unable to go into burst mode - this keeps transfers down to
John> about 15 Mb/s, which is kind of low considering we were getting
John> more than 50 Mb/s through the PCI bus on an older Pentium 75.

John> Does anybody know what might be causing this? Maybe the kernel
John> doesn't know enough about the chipset to turn on bursts?

John> Kernel is 1.3.62 with PCI optimizations turned on, system is a
John> Micron PPro 180 w/32 Mb.

John> Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

No help available: Broken Chipset Design!

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