From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 28 10: 6:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B0E337B718 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:06:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (dialup-8.aaa.net.au [203.14.230.73]) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f1SI69F32428; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 05:06:09 +1100 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central-f.apana.org.au [203.9.107.235]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA07251; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:41:09 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:33:30 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Murray Taylor Cc: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Is this motherboard / system rated for SMP ? In-Reply-To: <710709BB8B02D311942E006067441810544268@MELEXC01> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Murray Taylor wrote: > I am establishing FreeBSD 4.2 Release (from the CD Roms) on a Compaq A550 > and > I need to know if the motherboard is rated for SMP... Wild guess... it will probably be OK once you've fired up the BIOS utils off the CD and selected an appropriate setting for the OS - Unixware or Linux would be good ones to try from what I remember of previous comments about Compaqs & SMP. BTW, you'll need to recompile the kernel to enable SMP. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 andymac@pcug.org.au (play2) | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message