Re: sym53c875E-0: PCI clock seems too high

Andreas Bombe (andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:28:51 +0200

On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 11:08:26PM +0200, Gerard Roudier wrote:
> Overcloking a CPU that is in fact sold with an underclocked specification
> is one thing. Overclocking a BUS and then everything that connect to it by
> more than 10% was not imaginable by me. By the way, I think that people
> that overclock PCI 33 Mhz buses up to 41MHz or more are just foolish and
> plain idiot, but I don't care of them.

Even though bus overclocking may work for many devices, SCSI
controllers are known to react very allergic to that. Overclocking the
bus while using SCSI is therefore exceptionally stupid, given that data
integrity could suffer.

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