From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 07:31:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA19391 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 07:31:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iworks.InterWorks.org (deischen@iworks.interworks.org [128.255.18.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA19345 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 07:31:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org) Received: (from deischen@localhost) by iworks.InterWorks.org (8.8.7/) id JAA11108; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:36:20 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199802241536.JAA11108@iworks.InterWorks.org> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:36:20 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stewart@BITS.bris.ac.uk Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC-7895<>SMP w/Pentium II's Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In regard to the Tyan Thunder 2 (S1696DLUA): > 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! :) Do you have AMI or Award BIOS on this board? I seem to recall it is available with either. Is there any problem with getting the board to use different interrupts with your PCI devices? Does SMP work properly also? [ I'm considering this board along with the similar ASUS PII Dual CPU with Adaptec SCSI also ] Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message