From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Sep 23 12:21:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-smp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA29561 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uhf.wdc.net (uhf.wdc.net [198.147.74.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA29467 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bad@localhost) by uhf.wdc.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA00400; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:20:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:20:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Bernie Doehner To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: recommendations on inexpensive dual Pentium MB's. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Terry and others: Thanks for your comments. I have a lot to learn from you. One thing that I have definitely learned is that SMP FreeBSD is currently NOT a stable platform and I should probably stay away from it for the main server at my house. But, I am quite interested in learning more about SMP and parallel processing, so I'd like to get a dual Pentium capable motherboard, but run it in single CPU (non-SMP) mode till the SMP FreeBSD kernel becomes more mature and/or supports higher granularity. I have read the http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html page, and saw several good candidate boards. Does anyone have any recommendations on distributors who carry these motherboards at reasonable prices? By reasonable I mean < $180. (For example: Computer Geeks carries the Micronics dual Pentium board for $150 but I want to stay away from it because noone seems to have tested it yet - it also doesn't run anything faster than 100 MHz. and I can't use my non-parity RAM with it). Thanks. Bernie bad@uhf.wdc.net