At 05:26 1/6/99 -0500, Roberto Safora Romay wrote:
>Is there any way that I can recognize the K6s belonging to that batch?
>Were they dealed?

Do you mean were they sold to people? You bet! I have one.
But the problem only surfaces under unusual circumstances.

For more information, there is a website devoted to the bug:
<http://www.multimania.com/poulot/k6bug.html>.

The K6-200 CPUs that were affected were Stepping A and some of stepping B.
Processors that were made after week 30 of 1997 should be okay. That is,
processors with serial numbers like "B 9731FPAW" which I believe indicates
stepping B and week 31 of 1997. Many week 30 K6s _may_ be okay as well.

Here's a message from AMD tech support on this:

>Hello,
>
>AMD recently received reports from a limited number of users having
>intermittent problems while running core re-compiles of the Linux
>shareware operating system. Our systems engineering group has duplicated
>the observation and determined that it is related to a previously know
>erratum. Full technical details of this erratum are documented in
>section 2.6.2 of the AMD-K6 MMX Enhanced Processor Revision Guide posted
>on our website, www.amd.com. Users that feel they are being affected by
>this problem, should contact AMD s support line at (408) 749-3060 and
>ask for Dan Hingle or Glen Garcia.
>
>Regards,
>
>Technical Support

The errata referred to is <http//www.amd.com/K6/k6docs/revgd.html>.

Regards,
Bill

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