Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:08:40 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: "'Mike Smith'" <mike@smith.net.au>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc Message-ID: <E40CBF0361C7D111914000C0F0303D108649@OCTOPUS>
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Does anyone actually know of sources of 200Mhz PPro chips since I haven't had much luck finding any for the last few months! Paul Richards Ph.D. Originative Solutions Ltd > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Smith [mailto:mike@smith.net.au] > Sent: Friday, May 22, 1998 12:31 AM > To: Garance A Drosihn > Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc > > > > Okay. For those who can't seem to find the machine I'm > talking about > > at insight, the URL is: > > > > > http://www.insight.com/cgi-bin/bp/1480860161/web/technote.html > ?a=f&f=p&d=TODT102 > > 6U > > Ooh, I want me one. 8) > > > I just ordered a second one of these $800 boxes yesterday, > and I think > > they still have a thousand left in stock (that's with just > the single > > PPro, of course, for SMP you'd have to buy another processor). I > > imagine it is to my advantage to have many many of these sold to > > freebsd folks, as it will increase the number of people interested > > in freebsd support for them :-) > > They ought to Just Work. > > > But I really was interested in whether there's anything I need to > > watch out for when buying the second processor, in case I > want to try > > for SMP in the fall, > > Should be nothing special. Make sure you're buying the processor > sooner rather than later, as they're getting harder to get. > > > and whether there's a way to read the temperature > > sensors inside the box while freebsd is running. > > I believe someone's already written code to talk to the LM78, if not, > you could dig out the specs and do it pretty easily. There's a Linux > driver that's supposed to do this (didn't work too well when I tried > it). > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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