Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:56:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@headcandy.com> Cc: netbsd-current@netbsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: P6 Natoma chipset Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.93.960806124725.9417A-100000@dympna> In-Reply-To: <199608061628.JAA19281@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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I've got a Dual CPU Natoma board (OEM Microsatar) with one CPU. It runs quite well. FreeBSD-current builds in 3800sec, kernels in 215sec. It apparently includes the IRDA and USB header, I haven't looked for either. Interestingly, the machine runs a neural net benchmark (lots of FPU) twice as fast as the Indigo2 250MHz on my desk. The SGI is using the fancy SGI compiler... On a side note: I noticed a program (DOS) called VIDSPEED which enables several features (write posting and write combining) for the orion that appear to work with the Natoma. Under DOS they've increased PCI graphics card throughput from 25M(pixel/byte?)/sec to 75M(pixel/byte?)/sec. I believe that this is actually generic to the PCI bus and not just the graphics card. I was wondering if anyone seen the critter and docs and if this could be (or already is) included in Free/NetBSD. -Rob On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > I'm going to be buying a 200MHz Pentium Pro and motherboard (probably > a dual-CPU) in the next week or two. I know the Orion chipset has > some nasty bugs (like the 4MB/s PCI bus speed). > > Has anyone discovered any horrible bugs in the Natoma (440FX) chipset, > or is it working well so far? > > I also remember reading something about someone having quality > problems with SuperMicro motherboards. Any opinions on SuperMicro > versus ASUS, WRT build quality, reliability, support, and speed? > > Thanks for your feedback. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com > --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- > NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, > Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... > NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... > > Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. > If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
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