From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 04:30:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27957 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 04:30:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from BITS.bris.ac.uk (root@bits.bris.ac.uk [137.222.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27873 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 04:29:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stewart@BITS.bris.ac.uk) Received: from BITS.bris.ac.uk (stewart@BITS.bris.ac.uk [137.222.64.1]) by BITS.bris.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA20493; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:29:42 GMT Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:29:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Stewart Morgan To: "Andrew J. Doane" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC-7895<>SMP w/Pentium II's In-Reply-To: <199802220031.SAA06976@eagle.ais.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Andrew J. Doane wrote: > Two questions for the FreeBSD guru's: > > 1. Is the Adaptec AIC-7895 on-board controller supported? Adaptec says > its equivelent to the 3940AUW, which is on FreeBSD's supported list. > > 2. Does FreeBSD's SMP support Pentium II's? I am looking at the Tyan > Thunder 2 (S1696DLUA) which is Intel MPS 1.4 compliant. > > My feeling thus far is Yes to both. > Yes, yes and correct! :) I've finally managed to get the above setup to work (thanks to all those who posted replies!) There are a few catches (aren't there always): 1) You'll need the CAM SCSI layer (ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam) 2) and for that to work, I needed the source tree from 25th Dec 97 (ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/unix/FreeBSD/3.0-971225-SNAP). BTW, if you want to boot with the SCSI support, you'll need the boot images (ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/incoming/cam-boot.tgz). Hope this is of use! Apart from that, things now seem to be going swimmingly! :) Stewart ------- - Systems-Representative & Joint Systems Administrator BITS - Bristol Information Technology Society University of Bristol Student's Union, Bristol, England E-Mail: stewart@BITS.bris.ac.uk WWW : http://www.BITS.bris.ac.uk/stewart/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message