From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 22:39:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5823B16A4D0 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 22:39:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.sea.theriver.com (smtp3.sea.theriver.com [216.39.128.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7520B43FE9 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 22:39:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from damm@yazzy.org) Received: (qmail 6480 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2003 06:11:39 -0000 Received: from portal.aphroland.org (HELO 10.10.10.132-unassigned.aphroland.org) (216.39.174.24) by smtp3.sea.theriver.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2003 06:11:39 -0000 From: Scott Likens To: rhett@alasir.com In-Reply-To: <20031107050948.64249.qmail@web25101.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20031107050948.64249.qmail@web25101.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1068185442.25609.0.camel@desolation.livid.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 22:10:42 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel I440GX+ X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 06:39:58 -0000 On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 21:09, RMH wrote: > Roberto de Iriarte wrote: > > > > Scott Likens wrote: > > > > >On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 03:27, Tom wrote: > > > > > > > > >>On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Scott Likens wrote: > > >> > > >>... > > >> > > >> > > >>>Onboard SCSI, 1gig of ECC, dual P2-450's. Never had this problem > > >>>before. > > >>> > > >>> > > >> I hope you are using P3s, or Xeon CPUs not P2s, since P2s are not able > > >>to cache memory above 512MB, which means that things will be real slow. > > >> > > >> > > > > > >No, Dual P2 Xeons. > > > > > > > > > > > Hmmm ? Are you sure ? I own an L440GX+ and Xeon's do not fit on it. You > > might have either > > an MS440GX or a C440GX, the former being a workstation board (with AGP), > > the later an entry level server board > > if there are PII Xeon CPU's on it. > > Only first PIIs had L2 cache which was unable to store data located > beyond 512Mb memory boundary (233-300MHz, Klamath), and some of them > even didn't support ECC for L2 cache. All the next PIIs (333-450MHz, > Deschutes) had L2 cache with ECC, capable of all 4Gb. So PIIs are > not so bad as some people may think. Besides, L2 cache of PIIXeons > and some PIIIXeons (Drake & Tanner) is slow because it is off-core, > regardless of running at full core speed. > > --- > Regards, > Rhett > Also to note, that now the computer boots again with the madt.c 1.4.4 Thanks.