Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:39:34 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: TigerMP configuration stability and FreeBSD Message-ID: <F212vN9C1W2E5XvogCT000197cc@hotmail.com>
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I plan to setup a dual-CPU system. Clearly the way to go at the moment is the Athlon with the palomino core, for which there are two well known dual-CPU boards available. I will not get the Tyan Thunder, I do not want to use a proprietary power supply (that and it is too expensive), so that leaves the Tiger. I was hoping that anyone with this board or other hardware in the system (oor knowledge of the hardware) could share any possibly problems that might be experienced. System: -Tyan TigerMP -Dual AthlonMP...XP if I can get away with it -Crucial registered ECC DDR DIMMS. (That's alot of acronymns...) -1st gen. SBLive value sound -Hercules vidcard based on PowerVR "Kyro"--probably won't like X so may switch to the good ole' Matrox G400 -A bunch of IDE drives. SCSI is too expensive. -Seventeam 400W WTX/ATX PS (supposedly a good brand, it is used by Kryotech) -Old Adaptec 2940UW with 2 CD-ROMS Most of these parts are known to work with FreeBSD, but I am interested if they have any problems when using SMP kernels. For example, the Creative Labs "Audigy" is supposed to be usable on SMP systems, implying that the Live! is not. I have not heard of many problems using the Live! on SMP systems though. Additionally, most reviews say that the board is stable...Hopefully more stable than the servers running Tyan's website which is quite down right now, but some people one USEnet have reported reboots/crashes. Those are likely related to hardware. FreBSD users are generally more clueful about using crummy hardware, so I figured this would be the best place to ask. The system needs to be very stable. Thanks for any help ahead of time. Charles Burns _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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