From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 1 23:13:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA18147 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 23:13:27 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA18142 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 23:13:25 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id XAA06755; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 23:11:53 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id XAA02569; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 23:13:14 -0700 Message-Id: <199510020613.XAA02569@corbin.Root.COM> To: Network Coordinator cc: Jake Hamby , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: A moment in the life of ftp.cdrom.com In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 95 18:24:15 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 23:13:13 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > The irony is that if we could only fit more than 128MB of memory into >> > this beast we could do even more.. I wonder if anyone from Intel is >> > listening? Guys! We need a decent motherboard with room for more >> > memory, please! please! :-) > >What happened to the old motherboard with 192MB of RAM? Several things. First, the mix of disk controllers that was in the machine would not work with the newer 4GB drives. In fact, they corrupted the contents. This forced us to upgrade the controllers, and while I would have prefered to have used all Buslogic 946C's, they would *not* cooperate. It was impossible, in fact, to get more than one working at the same time. So I tried to get the AHA-2940's working in it, and that wouldn't work either - the old ASUS motherboard was not PCI 2.0 compliant and wouldn't work with plug-n-play cards like the 2940. So we upgraded the motherboard (which was needed anyway because the Neptune chipset only works with 2 PCI bus masters) and then found that the Buslogics wouldn't work at all. So then I upgraded all of the disk controllers to (3) AHA-2940's. This actually worked, but presented other minor problems which we've been dealing with since (various bugs in the 2940 driver). Anyway, the new motherboard only supports 4 SIMMs. I've been unable to find a Triton based MB that supports more than 4. Switching to some other chipset really isn't an option at this point either - we need the memory speed advantages of the Triton in order to keep up with all of the load. -DG