> On Fri, 15 May 1998, Stephen Potts wrote:
> 
> > Could someone please tell me if 233MHz StrongArms are affected by the
> > problem? 
> > 
> > I have no idea what revision I have, or how to find out.  All I know is
> > that it was one of the early 233MHz which I got with my Machine in
> > September 1997, direct from Acorn.  I only know this because I had
> > ordered a 202MHz but they ran out, so I had to wait until they received
> > the 233MHz from Digital :) 
> 
> Well, take the lid off the machine and have a look at the chip! In the
> middle it says 'SA110#', where the # should be replaced with a letterm,
> which represents the revision of chip that you're running. Mine says
> 'SA110K', for example!
> 
> Apparently, anything later than K does not suffer from this particularly
> nasty bug (AFAICR)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bill
> 

You can work it out without opening the lid -- since it is in the chip 
identification number (NetBSD prints it at boot time when it prints out 
the name of the CPU -- "SA110 rev X ...").  If it says rev 2 you have a 
bad one, if it says rev 3 (there may be later ones as well, but I've not 
heard of any) then you are safe.

If you don't have netbsd installed, you can either do a dummy boot from an 
install floppy, or I think some of the speed index utilities on RISC OS 
report the same information.  There's probably even a RISC OS SWI that 
will look it up for you.

Richard.