From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Jul 3 14:58:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23003 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 14:58:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (adm@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22965 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 14:57:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mestery@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22330; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:57:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma022311; Fri, 3 Jul 98 16:57:45 -0500 Received: from localhost (mestery@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA26794; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:57:42 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: mestery owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:57:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Kyle Mestery To: Todd Backman cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Todd Backman wrote: > > I am waiting for UPS to deliver my BUFFERED 64mb dimms at this moment. Any > suggestions on the SMP install? I have dl'd the 3.0 boot.flp and am > curious as to how I incorporate CAM with this. I bought the Micronics Dual > PPRO (W6-LI-007) for $54 from onsale.com and am ready to start on my > little "project" for the weekend (my wife just can't understand this > madness); ^) . Any suggestions would be great. > One thing to watch out for with this board is that you partition the disk so it is compatible with DOS style partition tables. Otherwise it will refuse to boot (at least from a SCSI disk). Mike Smith had said this was a problem with the BIOS or sometjhing, but the board works fine when you do it this way. It is a screamer. If you have decent fans, you shouild easily be able to overclock this board. -- Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Network Systems Group "I'll take what you're willing to give, and I'll teach myself to live, with a walk-on part of a background shot from a movie I'm not in." - Blink 182, "Apple Shampoo" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message