Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:05:31 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, John Gold <Gold@kr8.com>, FreeBSD SMP list <FreeBSD-smp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: supermicro 370DL3 Message-ID: <20010124150530.A2082@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101231916530.51651-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:33:16PM -0600 References: <20010123162852.A93268@panzer.kdm.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101231916530.51651-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 19:33:16 -0600, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:42:26 -0600, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:21:18AM -0000, John Gold wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > has anybody successfully used the Supermicro 370DL3 dual processor board under freebsd SMP? > > > > > > > > I am successfully running a Supermicro S2DL3 (Xeon cousin MB) with > > > > success (this is on 4.2-stable). > > > > > > I'm using the 370DE6 with dual PIII-800's and 4.2-STABLE with no > > > problems, yet (its only a few days old). > > > > Just out of curiosity, where did you get the board? > > It came in a bundled SuperMicro SuperServer 6040 system > (http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/SUPERServer/SUPER%20SERVER%206040%20Server.htm). > The only thing you need to add to those bundled systems are the Socket > 370 processors, the memory, and the SCA drives. It looked good, so I > thought I'd give it a try. Pretty nice system for the money. Put it > together with dual PIII-800's, 512MB PC133 ECC Registered SDRAM (thats > the only kind it will take), a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 w/32MB, and three > IBM 36LZX 10KRPM Ultra160 18.2GB HDs for about $4300. Nice system. Where did you get the server system? Most of the places I've seen advertising the 370DE6 don't give you any clear indication of whether it's in stock or not. The one place that did (www.microx-press.com) doesn't have them in stock. > I just put 4.2-STABLE on it about a week ago. I haven't had time to > do much with it, but it has survived a couple of new kernels and a > couple of 'make -j 8 world's. The only thing I've noticed wrong is > this: > > APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 > APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0 > > and occasionally a few of these when under moderate disk load (disks > are on the AcceleRAID 170, which is on the 64/66 PCI bus running at > only 32/33): > > /kernel: stray irq 7 > > but even then, everything seems to work fine. Yeah, there was a discussion about the 'stray irq 7' messages on -hackers last week. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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