From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 20:44:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA29921 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 20:44:01 -0800 Received: from sh1.ro.com (mprevost@sh1.ro.com [205.216.92.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA29894 ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 20:43:51 -0800 Received: (from mprevost@localhost) by sh1.ro.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA00342; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 23:49:39 -0600 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 23:49:39 -0600 From: "Mike R. Prevost" Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ASUS SP3 motherboard -- ? To: "Andrew V. Stesin" cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511220137.DAA07970@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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