From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 07:03:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29441 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:03:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from BITS.bris.ac.uk (root@bits.bris.ac.uk [137.222.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA29195 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:01:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stewart@BITS.bris.ac.uk) Received: from BITS.bris.ac.uk (stewart@BITS.bris.ac.uk [137.222.64.1]) by BITS.bris.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA10473; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:01:22 GMT Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:01:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Stewart Morgan To: "Daniel M. Eischen" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC-7895<>SMP w/Pentium II's In-Reply-To: <199802241536.JAA11108@iworks.InterWorks.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Daniel M. Eischen wrote: > > In regard to the Tyan Thunder 2 (S1696DLUA): > > > Yes, yes and correct! :) I've finally managed to get the above setup to > > work (thanks to all those who posted replies!) > > > > There are a few catches (aren't there always): > > > > 1) You'll need the CAM SCSI layer (ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam) > > > > 2) and for that to work, I needed the source tree from 25th Dec 97 > > (ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/unix/FreeBSD/3.0-971225-SNAP). > > > > BTW, if you want to boot with the SCSI support, you'll need the boot images > > (ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/incoming/cam-boot.tgz). > > > > Hope this is of use! > > > > Apart from that, things now seem to be going swimmingly! :) > > Do you have AMI or Award BIOS on this board? I seem to recall it > is available with either. It's an AMI BIOS. > Is there any problem with getting the board to use different > interrupts with your PCI devices? I've not actually needed to, and consequentially not tried, tried re-assigning IRQs if that's what you mean. Though I've had no trouble with the (PCI part of the) PCI devices: EtherExpress Pro, both SCSI channels, USB and miscelaneous on-board chips. > Does SMP work properly also? As yet, I've had no problems - but I've not attempted putting a major load on the box... I'm still tinkering :) > [ I'm considering this board along with the similar ASUS PII > Dual CPU with Adaptec SCSI also ] The only real trouble I've had was with AIC-7895 chipset support. The box was a little tempremental on boot, but I think it's the monitor / video card comination - basically, the system would hang if I switched on with the video cable plugged in. It's fine if I power up with out the cable (and re-attach shortly after) and on warm/cold boots.. it's just the initial power on..???!?!? Bizzarre! :) The motherboard's great! :) Has any body else had this trouble? > Dan Eischen > deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org > Stewart ------- - Systems-Representative & Joint Systems Administrator BITS - Bristol Information Technology Society University of Bristol Student's Union, Bristol, England E-Mail: stewart@BITS.bris.ac.uk WWW : http://www.BITS.bris.ac.uk/stewart/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message