Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:13:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Brandon DeYoung" <brandon@schoolpeople.net> Cc: "FreeBSDHW" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Intel ISP4400 Message-ID: <200102010313.f113D3s01026@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:56:59 PST." <NDBBIMEMALMGDMAJDFPEAEMCCAAA.brandon@schoolpeople.net>
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> I'm not sure about the Adaptec 7899P and Adaptec 7880. Any problems with
> these and FreeBSD?
No problems.
> I'm also curious about the 16GB addressable RAM. Would you need 4
> processors to address that much RAM? The Xeon's with 512K cache are real
> cheap. Would the cache size influence the addressable/cacheable RAM size?
No. 4GB tops under FreeBSD right now.
> Can you mix and match processors of differing cache sizes?
As a general rule, on Intel-based systems, no, the CPUs should be
identical (or unpredictable results may occur).
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to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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