From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 6 0:57:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.tue.nl (mailhost.tue.nl [131.155.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B07215914 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 00:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from K.R.A.M.Schreel@wtb.tue.nl) Received: from wop5.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.55] by mailhost.tue.nl (8.9.3) id JAA23503 (ESMTP); Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:57:16 +0200 (MDT) Received: from wtb.tue.nl (wop24.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.116]) by wop5.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA04263; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 07:57:15 GMT Message-ID: <37D3743D.6750A6F6@wtb.tue.nl> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 09:58:53 +0200 From: Koen Schreel Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lynn Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASUS p2b-ds References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lynn wrote: > > I know that question has been around before but > I was thinking about getting a asus p2b-ds with > ecc memory and 2 pii 350mhz cpus and I was > wondering how kernel 3.2 does with smp? I run a P2B-DS with 2 PII-350's (bios 1008). Nice motherboard, but I don't know about ECC. The only thing you have to keep in mind, is that some linux programs do not run under FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE-SMP. Especially wine fails. You'll have to wait for 4.0 to have that fixed. > Is there > tweaks you can perform to the kernel? I have device apm0 at isa? flags 0x20 instead of the standard device apm0 at isa? disable flags 0x31 to fix/avoid some timer problems which result in a wrong behaviour of `top' and others. It could be that bios 1009 fixes this. It has something to do with the Y2K compliance. I you are about to buy a new MB, it will almost certainly have bios 1009 or even 1010. > Also, is the > adaptec-7890 chipset on this board supported well > with CAM in the 3.2 kernel? Yes, never had any problems. Only in the early days of 3.0-CURRENT I've had a minor performance issue. I recently installed a machine with a P2B-S motherboard and a Quantum atlas 9 Gb disk. The output of `bonnie' showed numbers above 20Mb/s. Koen. -- Dr. K.R.A.M. Schreel | Eindhoven University of Technology | Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Combustion Research | Section Energy Technology | P. O. Box 513 K.R.A.M.Schreel@wtb.tue.nl | 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message