From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Feb 14 15:31:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10517 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:31:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thunderdome.plutotech.com (root@thunderdome.plutotech.com [206.168.67.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10482 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:31:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (ken@panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by thunderdome.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA10844; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 16:31:17 -0700 (MST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id QAA20741; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 16:31:14 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199802142331.QAA20741@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: DEC PW 6200 troubles - more info In-Reply-To: <199802142324.PAA23519@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Feb 14, 98 03:24:43 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 16:31:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: ken@plutotech.com, ejon@colltech.com, smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote... > > You're using MP Spec version 1.1, not 1.4. From my own, and other > > folks' experience, you probably need to enable MP Spec version 1.4 in your > > BIOS in order for the SMP kernel to work. (This isn't always the case, but > > with newer motherboards, it definitely seems to be...) > > > > So, go into your BIOS, find the option that lets you change the MP > > Spec version, and change it to 1.4. Send mail back to the list and let us > > know whether this fixes your problem.. > > And if your BIOS doesn't offer such an option? Most 440FX and 440LX machines that I've heard of have an option to switch back and forth between 1.1 and 1.4. He has a Natoma chipset board, so he most likely does have an option in his bios to switch to MP Spec version 1.4. Neptune chipset boxes only do 1.1, IIRC, but they do work. So, I guess the "right" thing to say is that if you have an option in your BIOS to enable MP Spec version 1.4, do it. If not, and your machine doesn't work with an SMP kernel, there's probably some other problem. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message