From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 06:36:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E7E937B401 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:36:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E65E43F93 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:36:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gregor.Bittel@GMX.de) Received: (qmail 29671 invoked by uid 65534); 30 Jul 2003 13:36:26 -0000 Received: from p3E9E2018.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO 2xp200mmx.BI) (62.158.32.24) by mail.gmx.net (mp012) with SMTP; 30 Jul 2003 15:36:26 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gregor Bittel To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:36:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <27727.1059465900@www22.gmx.net> <3F265050.8000705@liwing.de> <3F2657A2.19FC7E20@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3F2657A2.19FC7E20@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200307301536.32866.Gregor.Bittel@GMX.de> Subject: Re: PIII SMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:36:29 -0000 Hi, On 29.07.2003 10:05, freebsd_deamon@gmx.net wrote: > buying two PIII for a dual system ... what do i have to pay > attention to (besides the requirements of the M/B)? > aka ... are all PIII SMP capable? No, not all PIII-processors are SMP-capable, some steppings are not working, like the first generation of the 1GHz-processors, they do not work with SMP (AFAIK). Please grab the specifications for the PIII-processor at Intel.com, it is always the best ressource for questions like this. Terry Lambert wrote: > BTW: Since the PIII's run in slightly older motherboards, it's > probably worth pointing out that a number of the Intel chipsets > are known to have problems with PCI bus master arbitration when > you have more than 2 PCI bus master devices in the box; the one > I definitely recognized as being a problem was the NX, but I had > also heard there were issues with the FX and the ServerWorks III, > as well. Checking "Tom's Hardware" is probably a good idea. I > didn't see this mentioned in any of the "Notes"/"Comment" sections. I can't add any informations about this problem, because I don't get these informations from the owners yet, sorry. If I get those sort of informations from the owners, I will add it, of course. -Gregor. -- Gregor.Bittel@GMX.de [1]= http://www.bnv-bamberg.de/home/ba3294/smp/index.htm