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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Petz who wrote (81785)	12/2/1999 4:16:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572157

<A much more serious Coppermine bug than "boot hang."> Relax, Petz. If there wasn't a workaround already implemented for this bug, it would indeed have been deemed much more serious than Dell's "boot hang." If you want to get a little more technical, look at the description of the bug: "Snoop Request May Cause DBSY# hang." Snoop requests happen all the time on the FSB, even on single-processor systems, although multi-processor systems exhibit a higher amount of such snoop traffic. There is no way on earth that a bug of this severity would have escaped unnoticed until now, or else owners of Coppermine-based workstations would have experienced on the order of one system crash per day. Tenchusatsu