Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 01:37:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow <rsnow@txdirect.net> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net>, Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: A moment in the life of ftp.cdrom.com Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951002012311.5234B-100000@oasis> In-Reply-To: <199510020613.XAA02569@corbin.Root.COM>
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On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >> > The irony is that if we could only fit more than 128MB of memory into > >> > this beast we could do even more.. I wonder if anyone from Intel is > >> > listening? Guys! We need a decent motherboard with room for more > >> > memory, please! please! :-) > > > >What happened to the old motherboard with 192MB of RAM? > > Several things. First, the mix of disk controllers that was in the machine > would not work with the newer 4GB drives. In fact, they corrupted the contents. > This forced us to upgrade the controllers, and while I would have prefered > to have used all Buslogic 946C's, they would *not* cooperate. It was > impossible, in fact, to get more than one working at the same time. So I tried > to get the AHA-2940's working in it, and that wouldn't work either - the old > ASUS motherboard was not PCI 2.0 compliant and wouldn't work with plug-n-play > cards like the 2940. So we upgraded the motherboard (which was needed anyway > because the Neptune chipset only works with 2 PCI bus masters) and then found > that the Buslogics wouldn't work at all. So then I upgraded all of the disk > controllers to (3) AHA-2940's. This actually worked, but presented other minor > problems which we've been dealing with since (various bugs in the 2940 driver). > Anyway, the new motherboard only supports 4 SIMMs. I've been unable to > find a Triton based MB that supports more than 4. Switching to some other > chipset really isn't an option at this point either - we need the memory speed > advantages of the Triton in order to keep up with all of the load. > > -DG The new Tyan III has 6 SIMM slots and is Triton, however it only supports 128MB. (I think its a Trition thing, not a simm slot thing) I've recently heard of a NEW Opti chipset that __supposed__ to be very good and I __believe__ I read it'll support 512MB. ( I believe it does EDO, PB, SB and all that stuff :-) ) /* * disclaimer, * this is all from my non-parity memory so: * I could be completely WRONG on all this sh*t :-) */ ______________________________________________________________________ Rob Snow Powered by FreeBSD rsnow@txdirect.net http://www.freebsd.org
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