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From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
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Subject: Re: Question on runing STABLE on old Intel SMP boards
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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