From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 21 16:15:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (deepthought.blinkenlights.nl [62.58.162.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F6937B413 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix, from userid 500) id 4977CAB; Wed, 22 May 2002 01:15:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4345BC120 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 01:15:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 01:15:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Sten To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 164SX Hardware notes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just some things I figured out while playing with my 164SX-533mhz. Ide : the onboard ide stinks ( max 6-8mb ), get a promise card ( 20mb hardware max ). Be aware that udma66 cable may cause problems, an udma33 cable helped. Scsi : There is quite a lot of confusion regarding bootable scsi adaptors. I did some tests with the latest firmware ( 5.8 ) leading to the following conclusions. Adaptec 2924uw works, anything beyond that ( 2924u2, 29160 ) isn't recognised. LSI/Symbios 895 works. Although you might want to play with camcontrol to properly set u2 speed ( or find a pc somewhere to properly config it ). Which makes the lsi the only easily available bootable u2 adaptor. Note that I have only tested a card that I got second hand which claims to be a genuine lsi, you're on your own with tekram/clones. Memory : The board is capable of handling 1024mb of ram ( as opposed to 512mb ). I have 4x 256mb ecc in mine. Regular pc133 dimms. I wouldn't bet on 512mb dimms though. And your luck with 256mb dimms may have something to do with the amount of chips per module ( don't blame me if it doesn't work for you ). Nics : Beware of dual port nic's with pci bridge chips. I got one that really kills my alpha ( openboot errors and fbsd kernel crashes during boot ). Might be useful info for hardware.txt :) -- Sten Spans "What does one do with ones money, when there is no more empty rackspace ?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message