From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 4 01:07:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA11760 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 01:07:53 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA11339 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 01:02:57 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA15971; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 10:01:39 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA25759; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 10:01:38 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA07733; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 09:25:53 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512040825.JAA07733@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Anyone having 2.1 install trouble with funky IDE hardware? To: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 09:25:53 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Peter Berger" at Dec 3, 95 10:35:53 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1542 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Peter Berger wrote: > > > My test box is an ancient 386sx/16 w/ 6 MB RAM, a Seacrate ST1144A IDE > > disk, and a (flakey) Maxtor SCSI hanging off an AHA-1540*A* control- > > ler, plus a Herculess card & monitor. Everything went flawlessly for > > all of my 2.1 pre-releases. > > Out of curiosity, what sort of performance do you get out of this box? > Is it useful for anything? Low-speed routing? I know of somebody who's using a 3 MB 386/25 succesfully as a PPP router (for a dedicated line). I usually don't measure the `performance' of my test box, but i'm testing it for usability and stability. (Last time it was instable, i've been suspecting the AHA1540A, but it turned out to be the NeAT's ``page-interleave'' feature that was enabled by default after a CMOS power outage. My memory banks are too different however.) The last hard job it had to do was a full kernel compile, and this one even on the slower (IDE) disk. I seem to remember that it's been around 2 hours. > Can you run X on it? Yes, X runs surprisingly fast on the Hercules (since it's a 1-bit server), though the aspect ratio is, ähem, strange. You can run a perfectly egg-looking xclock on it. :-) This is my old mainboard and disk(s), and i remember that the box once had to compile the entire X11R5-based XFree86 1 distribution. A ``make World'' took around 24 hours by that time... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)