*BSD News Article 60344


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!mccall.com!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!caen!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!ramoth!buccaneer!pascal
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual Pentium MotherBoard.
Message-ID: <4dvm3l$ia3@ladystrange.bluehorizon.nl>
From: pascal@scylla@ramoth.xs4all.nl (Pascal van Dam)
Date: 22 Jan 1996 09:41:09 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
References: <44735j$7qo@kappa.usc.edu> <44evmi$s0p@park.uvsc.edu>
Organization: Blue Horizon Software
NNTP-Posting-Host: buccaneer.bluehorizon.nl
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Lines: 45
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:52415 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems:26269 comp.os.linux.hardware:28246 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13014

Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote:
: lamb@kappa.usc.edu (Mathew J. Lamb) wrote:
: ] 
: ] does anyone have any experience of building systems around the
: ] Intel (or other) dual pentium motherboard? - are the results
: ] favorable or not???? - ie are there any significant problems
: ] that you encountered or caveats that you would give?

: I recommend ASUS boards.  I would stay away from Intel OEM
: product division boards because of their handling of PCI Interrupt
: assignment (while technically allowed by the spec, they are
: terrifically inefficient).

: It should be noted that there is no such thing as a Triton based
: MP board, so you will be limited to two PCI bus masters in the
: same box until SMP support chips can do bus arbitration correctly
: for more than two masters.

: Avoid boards with RZ1000 based IDE controllers if you can, or if
: you can't, disable the IDE and use SCSI or another controller.
: Since about 1/3 of all IDE controllers are RZ1000 based, I can't
: recommend *any* IDE controllers at this time.


: Note that you will not benefit from the multiple processors in
: the current or short term projected releases for BSD or Linux.

:                                         Terry Lambert
:                                         terry@cs.weber.edu
: ---
: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
: or previous employers.

Looking at the current developers release kernel, SMP makes a fair chance
to hit the stable 1.4 release (due out soon) in some primal way..

Best regards,
  Pascal

--
+----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+ Pascal van Dam + Working on: XView rapid prototyper for the free UNIXes  +
+ 		 + 							   +
+----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+