Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 00:40:05 +0300 From: Antti-Pekka Liedes <apl@hutcs.cs.hut.fi> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AHA-3940U on Tomcat IIID, asking for trouble? Message-ID: <19970724004005.12787@hutcs.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <199707232123.OAA08649@MindBender.serv.net>; from Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com on Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 02:22:55PM -0700 References: <19970724001025.34097@hutcs.cs.hut.fi> <199707232123.OAA08649@MindBender.serv.net>
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On Wed, Jul 23, 1997 at 02:22:55PM -0700, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > >Are there any experiences of how well AHA-3940U (bridged PCI card) works > >on Tomcat IIID running freebsd-smp? I read the FBSD-SMP pages concerning > >bridged cards and it doesn't look promising. > > I have a 2940UW and a 3940UW (three SCSI channels total) running in a > NetBSD box (Asus P55TP4N with Cyrix 6x86 P166+, if it matters). It > works extremely well. > > Since the NetBSD and FreeBSD ahc drivers are derived from the same > code base, there's no reason to believe it shouldn't work (unless, of > course, your motherboard doesn't support bridges). > This exactly is my concern, how will Tomcat IIID motherboard react to 3940? Being a generally good quality board I think it should work well with bridging, but does anyone have any real experience? Too bad I still don't have two multiprocessing capable CPUs, I have to wait until the end of this month to get some. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net > --< 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... > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Antti-Pekka Liedes * apl@IRC * In two hells there's JMT 6 B 406 * apl@iki.fi * one hell too many 02150 ESPOO * apl@apocalypse.tky.hut.fi * - Lucifer +358 - 9 - 468 3121 * +358 - 40 - 5873 593 * (in God's Army)
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