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From: Adam McDougall <bsdx@looksharp.net>
To: Kris Anderson <animotions@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Dual Processing
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Yes, I have the Tyan Tiger MP S2460. 

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 10:17:18AM -0800, Kris Anderson wrote:

  Are you using a Tyan motherboard and if not which one are you using?  I
  currently have a Tyan Tomcat board for a Pentium (I) chips and I've tried it
  on FreeBSD 4.1 and maybe 4.2 and the kernel locks up on booting.  I am using
  3.5.1-RELEASE and it works great.
  
  I've backed up my current sysetm and will be giving 4.x another try and see
  what happens if it appears to work fine with SMP then I will most likely go
  with the AMD CPU if not I'll probably go with an Intel solution.
  
  > Mine works just great with dual Athlon XP 1800+ cpu's, including in
  > SMP mode.  I have also seen one other report from a webpage of a
  > Tiger MP working fine with FreeBSD and a slower set of XP cpu's.
  > I have the 1.02 bios revision, and a 1.03 is available but I
  > dont feel the need to use it.  My system is rock solid in FreeBSD,
  > I have not had a single stability issue yet.
  >
  > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:54:55PM -0800, Kris Anderson wrote:
  >
  >   I am thinking about building a new system using dual processing with
  either Intel or AMD.  I checked bug reports regarding Freebsd and SMP and
  saw an open problem.
  >
  >   The hardware that I'm thinking about going to will be using a Tyan Tiger
  mother board with dual AMD Athlon MP CPUs.  The experience with FreeBSD 4.x
  and Tyan boards is that SMP seems to be broke.
  >
  >   Has the problem been solved or will it be an episode found on Unsolved
  Mysteries?

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