From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 8 2:21:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE8F4046; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 02:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7457D1CD7; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 18:21:56 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: James Holtom Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (SMP) Celerons + ABIT BP6 In-Reply-To: Message from James Holtom of "Tue, 08 Feb 2000 10:08:19 GMT." Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 18:21:56 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000208102156.7457D1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Holtom wrote: > Does anyone have any current [preferably good] experience using FreeBSD > 3.4 [Stable] on a twin-celeron ABIT BP6 board? > > I seem to recall seeing bad reports about stability and so on, but with > the mailing list archives dead ATM... I'm happily running 4.0-CURRENT on an ABIT BP6 w/ 2 celeron 300's with monster cooling fans and running at 450MHz. Apart from it overheating yesterday (there are 6 high-rpm drives in it) when I closed the case for the first time, I had some Wierd Stuff(TM). Taking the cover back off solved it. This isn't suprising since it's very much in the "Don't do that" department and having all the extra drives in a confined space and being in the middle of summer here was asking for trouble (and I got it). Your mileage may vary, don't try overclocking at the very least until you have verified it as stable and no major problems are present. Trying to debug something with malfunctioning overheating cpus isn't much fun. Better still, don't overclock it at all if you value your sanity. In particular do not send in problem reports unless it's reproduceable without overclocking. Beware, the 3.x code does not support the UDMA66 connectors. You can only use the UDMA33 IDE connectors. You have to be running the absolute very latest -current to use the UDMA66 controller. FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #92: Sat Feb 5 22:57:37 WST 2000 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193264 Hz CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (451.05-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x665 Stepping = 5 Features=0x183fbff real memory = 67043328 (65472K bytes) avail memory = 60948480 (59520K bytes) Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000 Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc03e6000. ... ata-pci5: port 0xe000-0xe0ff,0xdc00-0xdc03,0xd800-0xd807 irq 18 at device 19.0 on pci0 ata6 at 0xd800 irq -1 on ata-pci5 ata-pci6: port 0xec00-0xecff,0xe800-0xe803,0xe400-0xe407 irq 18 at device 19.1 on pci0 ata7 at 0xe400 irq -1 on ata-pci6 ... APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! ... ad0: 9787MB [19885/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33 ad1: 6149MB [13328/15/63] at ata3-master using UDMA33 ad2: 6149MB [13328/15/63] at ata4-master using UDMA33 ad3: 6149MB [13328/15/63] at ata5-master using UDMA33 ad4: 6149MB [13328/15/63] at ata6-master using UDMA33 ad5: 6149MB [13328/15/63] at ata7-master using UDMA33 Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message