Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 09:25:53 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Anyone having 2.1 install trouble with funky IDE hardware? Message-ID: <199512040825.JAA07733@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951203223507.22321A-100000@ivory.lm.com> from "Peter Berger" at Dec 3, 95 10:35:53 pm
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As Peter Berger wrote: > > > My test box is an ancient 386sx/16 w/ 6 MB RAM, a Seacrate ST1144A IDE > > disk, and a (flakey) Maxtor SCSI hanging off an AHA-1540*A* control- > > ler, plus a Herculess card & monitor. Everything went flawlessly for > > all of my 2.1 pre-releases. > > Out of curiosity, what sort of performance do you get out of this box? > Is it useful for anything? Low-speed routing? I know of somebody who's using a 3 MB 386/25 succesfully as a PPP router (for a dedicated line). I usually don't measure the `performance' of my test box, but i'm testing it for usability and stability. (Last time it was instable, i've been suspecting the AHA1540A, but it turned out to be the NeAT's ``page-interleave'' feature that was enabled by default after a CMOS power outage. My memory banks are too different however.) The last hard job it had to do was a full kernel compile, and this one even on the slower (IDE) disk. I seem to remember that it's been around 2 hours. > Can you run X on it? Yes, X runs surprisingly fast on the Hercules (since it's a 1-bit server), though the aspect ratio is, ähem, strange. You can run a perfectly egg-looking xclock on it. :-) This is my old mainboard and disk(s), and i remember that the box once had to compile the entire X11R5-based XFree86 1 distribution. A ``make World'' took around 24 hours by that time... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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