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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:03:20 -0800
> From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
> To: John Heil <kerndev@sc-software.com>
> Cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>,
>      Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
>      Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz@hostmaster.org>,
>      Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64
>
> John Heil wrote:
> > And so far, I've found Tyan to be the slightly more reliable of the two.
>
> How so?  What kind of failures did you have with the ASUS board?
>

IIRC The Asus had problems w DMA for IDE bus 1 and moving
     to whatever Tyan I replaced it w solved the prob.
     ...I know... that's southbridge chip specific...
     but Asus chose the chipset...

Just my .02

johnh

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