Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 02:01:58 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Richard Loken <richardlo@admin.athabascau.ca> Cc: ticso@cicely.de, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PC164 and the KZPAC raid controller Message-ID: <20051001000158.GN54923@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.1050930171117.541323471h-100000@admin.athabascau.ca> References: <20050930223918.GL54923@cicely12.cicely.de> <Pine.PMDF.3.95.1050930171117.541323471h-100000@admin.athabascau.ca>
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:31:46PM -0700, Richard Loken wrote: > On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:19:02PM -0700, Richard Loken wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > way there. Any thoughts on VGA cards? I would like to get rid of this > > > Matrox Millenium that the PC164 SRM is so fond of. > > > What's wrong with Millenium cards? > > They are still great for desktop use and servers don't need graphic > > anyway. > > This server is my desktop at home and the Millenium only has 2 Mbyte of > memory and X11 has some strong opinions on how many bits of colour and how > much resolution he will provide me with that setup... I could scarf the > Oxygen out of the 4100 here at work - that guy IS a server and he doesn't > need that much video card. Alas, I find that managers grow restless when > I knock down the servers (much less steal their video cards). OK - 2M is not much. That an ISA ET4000 always worked for me is not much of help, I think. Maybe a G450 or S3 will work, but can't say for shure. I would say try out what you have and if you have to buy a card then try getting a used Millenium with 4 or 8M. > If I put in an Oxygen I can run VMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But who wants this if one can run FreeBSD :) The PC164 is very well supported, the only drawback is the interrupt PAL, which has problems masking interrupts, therefor we currently raise the CPU IPL as a workaround. As a result you'll see additional interrupt latency on higher interrupt load. Unfortunately both of my PC164 are production machines and I can't analyse the PAL. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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