Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 14:35:24 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: drosih@rpi.edu (Garance A Drosihn) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc Message-ID: <199805211935.OAA03031@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <v04011706b18a10956084@[128.113.24.47]> from Garance A Drosihn at "May 21, 98 01:50:36 pm"
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> 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). > A bunch of the FreeBSD SMP developers have those motherboards (as donated by a major corporate search engine, FreeBSD friendly benefactor :-).) It works pretty well. The biggest caveat is that the Intel motherboards have a fairly narrow range of SMP CPU compatibility. You'll likely have to match the CPU versions. I personally have two ID = 0x619, stepping 9 processors. FYI, as a FreeBSD developer, I normally run using a SMP development environment on a PR440 MB (256K/256K Cache, 64MB) and a SuperMicro P6DNF MB (256K/512K Cache, 192MB). I'll be getting a dual P2-400 MB with the Adaptec SCSI soon, so that will be well debugged in the future. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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