Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 23:49:39 -0600 From: "Mike R. Prevost" <mprevost@ro.com> To: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ASUS SP3 motherboard -- ? Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9511212304.B123-0100000@sh1.ro.com> In-Reply-To: <199511220137.DAA07970@office.elvisti.kiev.ua>
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On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Andrew V. Stesin wrote:
I just got an SP3G and it seems really solid. There is a FAQ on the ASUS
home page.
> Hello,
>
> today I've been installing a FreeBSD system for a friend (951026-SNAP).
> Just took two disks and NCR out of a working machine (Am486DX2/66,
> SOYO PCI motherboard) where it lives and went to his office.
>
> We were installing onto an ASUS P55TP4XE Pentium, and my disks
> were installed into a Am486DX4/100 + ASUS SP3 motherboard (note:
> that's _not_ an SP3G, just SP3).
>
> Strange enough, the NCR+2Conner1Gb trio which is working Ok on SOYO+DX2/66,
> was panicing after some ten minutes or even less in ASUS SP3 with
> DX4/100... that was a pain because I was forced to reattempt extraction
> step several times. It bombed with a message from kernel malloc() --
> like "no memory available". Disabling caches (external, then both)
> didn't help. Needless to mention that all tech tests from DOS,
> DOS itself and windo$e too are Ok on this box. I am still puzzled.
>
> Has anyone a combination of ASUS SP3 and Am486DX4/100 working
> with FreeBSD 2.1 ? I know that SP3G needs some special combination
> of jumpers installed to work with new and fast AMD CPUs;
> does SP3 need smth like this too?
> (They have a plenty of SP3-equipped boxes with Am486DX4/100, and want
> to use some of them for FreeBSD, too -- if only it's possible).
>
> P.S. ASUS Pentium (P55TP4XE motherboard) with NCR PCI SCSI and
> two Quantum Fireball 1Gb drives... HOW GREAT IT IS!!!
> The box of my dreams.
> Comparatively cheap and _really_ the fastest FreeBSD box I've
> ever seen. I'd recommend this combo to everyone.
>
> LONG LIVE FreeBSD AND PEOPLE WHO DID IT! THE VERY FASTEST UNIX IS FreeBSD-2.*!
>
> --
>
> With best regards -- Andrew Stesin.
>
> +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560
>
> An undocumented feature is a coding error.
>
--- Mike R. Prevost
Renaissance Internet Services
http://ro.com/~mprevost
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