Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:18:46 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: "Sergey N. Voronkov" <serg@tmn.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on runing STABLE on old Intel SMP boards Message-ID: <452E1686.2020902@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <20061012034757.GA13214@tmn.ru> References: <20061012034757.GA13214@tmn.ru>
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Sergey N. Voronkov wrote: > Hello, Stable! > > Do anyone have running RELENG_6 branch on old Intel SMP boards? I have two > of them: SCB2 and SDS2. Both are on RELENG_4_11 today. Thinking on proposed > EoL of RELENG_4 branch I'v tryed to move one of them (SCB2) onto 6.1-RELEASE. > That was very problematic - ethernet performance droped down to about 90 > kB/s in installer (Installer was runned from boot floppy). > FWIW both these boards seem very similar to a Supermicro P3TDER that I'm running 6-STABLE on (however the ethernet adapter is fxp not em), and it works well (Serverworks HE-SL is a really good chipset). I guess you could try a different ethernet card - if the boards have enough free PCI slots for you to do this - they look like they have 1 more than the P3TDER does (i.e. 1) > Do you have any tips? (Like running with ACPI disabled ond so on). > Works with ACPI enabled - had to use hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot=1 to get the power button to switch the box off after halt tho. Cheers Mark
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