From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 16:27:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA11449 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:27:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA11440 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA02494; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:26:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199607162326.QAA02494@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: That !@#$%^& AMI motherboard To: black@MR.Net (Ben Black) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:26:28 -0700 (MST) Cc: bill@thuvia.qstools.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607162252.RAA15927@galileo.mr.net> from "Ben Black" at Jul 16, 96 05:52:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] 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 > correct me if i'm wrong, but i recall that the P5 (not the P6) requires a > special version as the second CPU. some sort of additional silicon to let it > act as a slave to the normal CPU. perhaps a call to intel would be in order. > > Ben > black@mr.net > > > ps - thanks to everyone who responded to my chflags question. the security > uses of the command were most welcome. > > I'm *still* trying to find a pair of Pentia running at > > about 120-150 MHz, which will cooperate on my board. > > The board *which you should avoid* is an AMI Titan II. > > There's now a Titan III and I think that I know why... > > Part of the trouble is the AMI support people, who give > > different answers on different days. Intel Multiprocessing specification compliance requires a part with an APIC. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.