Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 13:28:57 -0500 From: Bruce Albrecht <Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Tyan ATX 1668 Message-ID: <9704121828.AA26206@gf006e0.seag.fingerhut.com>
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I've got one of these on order, and I understand that there's a problem with the 5th PCI slot, which is not currently a problem for me since I'm currently planning to use 3 slots. However, I was wondering if this problem is a hardware problem or a BIOS problem, and whether it matters which BIOS (AMI/Award) one is using. If it's BIOS, what's the change that Tyan will have the BIOS manufacturers fix it if we all complain? Also, this will be my first FreeBSD system (currently running NetBSD-Amiga), and I was wondering if I should start out running FreeBSD 2.2.1, and start looking at FreeBSD-SMP after I've gotten my basic setup done, or take the plunge and go start to FreeBSD-3.0+SMP kernel? Would I run 3.0 software + SMP kernel, or is there a complete SMP tree? Thanks, Bruce
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