From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 31 19:12:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06FF337B503 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:12:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f113D3s01026; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:13:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200102010313.f113D3s01026@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Brandon DeYoung" Cc: "FreeBSDHW" Subject: Re: Intel ISP4400 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:56:59 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:13:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message