Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:59:15 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended MP development machines... Message-ID: <20020704065915.8FDA2390F@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020703233926.N66398-100000@april.chuckr.org>
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Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:43:22PM -0700, George V. Neville-Neil wrote:
> > > I know everyone says "they all work" but i'd like some recommendations
on
> > > MP machines for -CURRENT work. I'll be ordering one this week.
> >
> > There is but _1_ dual system to get -- Tyan Thunder K7 (code name Guinness)
.
> > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk7.html. It comes in multiple
> > flavors, but mine is the dual-channel Ultra160, dual-3com 10/100, 5-64bit
> > PCI, 1 AGP version. You can cheap out and not get the non-SCSI S2462NG
> > model. Match this bad-boy up with a pair of fast Athlon `MP' (not `XP')
> > CPU's and it is a totally solid system. Various FreeBSD committers also
> > have this system.
> >
> > There is a newer [more economic] version called the Thunder K7X.
> > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk7x.html
>
> "more economic" is a poor way to describe it, seeing as it has all the
> features, plus (1) an updated version of the AMD mp chipset and (2) a
> fixed onboard usb port. The K7 had a broken on-board usb (the AMD
> chipset had a PCI contention bug for the usb port, so the tin back panel
> of the board blocked out the usb, and the K7 came with a PCI usb card,
> which ate up one of your PCI slots. The K7X has a repaired on-board usb,
> so you get that PCI slot back.
Hmmmmm..... Do you have any details on this? I've had occasional strange
USB-related things happen on this box. Of course, it runs -current which
puts me into the USB danger-zone enough as it is.. but what happens when
this bug is triggered?
Cheers,
-Peter
--
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