From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 14:02:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA03930 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA03902 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:02:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0usxvy-0008sKC; Tue, 20 Aug 96 14:01 PDT Message-Id: From: garyh@agora.rdrop.com (Gary Hanson) Subject: Re: 2.1.5R on IBM 704 server? To: soward@service1.uky.edu Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608201508.LAA02558@neworder.cc.uky.edu> from "John Soward" at Aug 20, 96 11:08:13 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ...has anyone every tried FreeBSD on an IBM 704 Pentium-Pro server? Yes. Wcarchive, home of the FreeBSD distributions is essentially a single- processor version of the 704. I have a two-processor system in my office, and 2.1.5 runs fine on it (but see below). > just from looking at the specs I'd think it would work, 4 way P-Pro, > Adaptech PCI SCSI, etc... I haven't tried the SMP stuff yet, so I have no idea whether or how well it works. Also, the two(!) onboard Adaptec controllers need an unsupported kernel patch for FreeBSD to be able to find the controllers. I can give you a boot floppy image and the patch source when you need it. --Gary Hanson