Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 17:00:19 EST From: "David Alderman" <DAVE@persprog.com> To: Javier Martin Rueda <jmrueda@diatel.upm.es>, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: motherboards with parity? Message-ID: <1582A6752F@novell.persprog.com>
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> Are you sure about what you say of the Neptune boards? > > I'm planning to buy an ASUS PCI/I-P54NP4D motherboard (dual Pentium) > and, initially, will run Solaris 2.4 for Intel on it. However, I may > run FreeBSD in the future, when it supports SMP. > > Anyhow, that motherboard uses the Neptune chipset, and I will put at > least a couple of PCI cards in it (SCSI and Ethernet). > > Also, will that mainboard be supported by FreeBSD/SMP? > Alas, what he says is true. I have an ASUS PCI/E P54NP4 board at work with only one CPU and we have not been able to get a PCI network card to work it. Of course, this machine is running SCO Unix which is not as well supported as FreeBSD;) Since our board has EISA slots as well, we solved the problem with an EISA network card. A non bus-mastering PCI ethernet card might work, but that sort of defeats the purpose of using a high performance card (fast with low CPU overhead). If you really need SMP, and you want to run two bus-mastering devices, you might consider getting the EISA version of the board if it is still available. Maybe a non-Intel chipset motherboard supports both SMP and multiple bus mastering. Anybody else have any ideas? ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================
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