Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 01:56:47 +0300 From: Ville Eerola <ville@vlsi.fi> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com> Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel PR440FX motherboard anybody ? Message-ID: <199704232256.AA131766207@layout.vlsi.fi> In-Reply-To: <1528.861816799@critter> References: <1528.861816799@critter>
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > I'm considering buying one of these with two PP200/256K chips, anybody > know anything about them good or bad ? I have one with single PP200/256K. I have the version including all the options: fast ethernet, Adaptec 7880 ultra-wide SCSI, and sound. I have been very satisfied so far. The system is very stable running FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE. I have been building world and releases all over again... The sound hardware is working (not great) with stock FreeBSD drivers. I think that the commercial OSS might have better support for the Crystal chip it is uning. In general everything has worked without any hassles. There are a few caveats, however: The SCSI bus on the motherboard is WIDE ONLY (It included a wide SCSI cable with external SCSI connector, which was nice). I had to buy an adapter (abt. USD50) for my old narrow SCSI disks. Also I haven so far found any documentation how to raise the clock multipliers for overclocking at 233MHz... (Any hints, anubody?) Also there has been some talk of requirements of using "options SMP_TIMER_NC" with current SMP code. I just out of curiosity ran the mptable program and it claimed MP 1.4 support... Regards, Ville -- Ville.Eerola@vlsi.fi VLSI Solution Oy Tel:+358 3 3165579 Hermiankatu 6-8 C Fax:+358 3 3165220 FIN-33720 Tampere, Finland
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