User: jeffmock

Thunder K7 SMP flakey?

On: The Ultimate Linux Box 2001

I've been having problems with the Thunder K7 hanging under heavy loads when running with 2 processors. Similar to Eric's problems, but I don't have a sound card to blame it on.

It doesn't seem to hang under casual use, but hangs only under heavy load (long make -j2 compiles). I suspected hardware troubles, but everything is running cool and I've swapped all pieces with the same results (NMB power supply, SIMMs, CPUs, motherboard)

Has anyone else had this problem, or found a solution?

jeff

Bought 2, 1 died

On: IBM DeskStar 75GXP Hard Drive Failures?

I bought two for use in a Linux web server. After about 3 months of uptime I brought the machine down and ran fsck and one of the drives dies with "horrible clicking failure" at the same point about 50% through the fsck of a ~40GB filesystem.

System is very clean, good cooling, good power, no mechanical shock.

The other one continues to work fine, but I fear for it. I didn't return the drive, I use it as a desk toy to remind me to do backups...

Bad drive: DTLA-307075 76.8GB ATA/IDE
S/N: YSF5N252

jeff

Re:Open Source FPGA tools

On: "Open-Source" ARM7 Core May Be On The Way

Right, FPGA tools aren't such a big issue anymore. It used to be expensive to get the tools to build an FPGA, but now the FPGA companies are happy to get the chip business and basically give away the tools. The real problem is lack of a free industrial strength Verilog/VHDL simulator. This is where you spend 95% of your time desiging a chip and there's not a good free alternative. For the hardware world this is the missing GCC.

jeff