From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 21 10:47:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21395 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 10:47:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (root@mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21384 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 10:47:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA102952 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 13:47:05 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199805211615.MAA13553@hda.hda.com> References: from Garance A Drosihn at "May 21, 98 12:38:14 pm" Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 13:50:36 -0400 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay. For those who can't seem to find the machine I'm talking about at insight, the URL is: http://www.insight.com/cgi-bin/bp/1480860161/web/technote.html?a=f&f=p&d=TODT102 6U More details on the machine are at: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Home.woa/-/Product.wo?component=Ke yFeatures&partNumber=PV1026U-01A&from=Business although that doesn't mention that the machine uses the PR440FX motherboard (and the deal from insight does not include any monitor). I just ordered a second one of these $800 boxes yesterday, and I think they still have a thousand left in stock (that's with just the single PPro, of course, for SMP you'd have to buy another processor). I imagine it is to my advantage to have many many of these sold to freebsd folks, as it will increase the number of people interested in freebsd support for them :-) - - - But I really was interested in whether there's anything I need to watch out for when buying the second processor, in case I want to try for SMP in the fall, and whether there's a way to read the temperature sensors inside the box while freebsd is running. If not, would it be hard to add that, and where would I start looking for details on how those sensors work from a programming standpoint? (hmm, maybe intel's web site would have something...). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message