Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 16:31:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc Message-ID: <199805212331.QAA05384@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 13:50:36 EDT." <v04011706b18a10956084@[128.113.24.47]>
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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 Ooh, I want me one. 8) > 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 :-) They ought to Just Work. > 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, Should be nothing special. Make sure you're buying the processor sooner rather than later, as they're getting harder to get. > and whether there's a way to read the temperature > sensors inside the box while freebsd is running. I believe someone's already written code to talk to the LM78, if not, you could dig out the specs and do it pretty easily. There's a Linux driver that's supposed to do this (didn't work too well when I tried it). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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