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From: cnordin@hq.vni.net (Craig Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Tyan Tomcat II @ P5-166 or P5-200 Will It Work?
Date: 15 Aug 1996 02:55:42 -0400
Organization: Virtual Networks
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My friend is running one with two processors on his NT
system and it smokes! It doesn't have cache, since even
with the latest bios the 512K cache seizes the machine,
but the board looks very very good right now. It screams
without cache.
What may not apply to BSDI is the IDE busmastering option
on the board. With it, my friend, who has his main system
hard disk on IDE, drops a heavily used server from a 50%
resource usage to a 35% resource usage.
NT makes good use of two processors. BSDI just sold Unix
to and promised another friend that the next version of
BSDI is coming out soon and will do two CPUs.
Another interesting option is that the motherboard lets
you select between parity, no parity and ECC -- and the
ECC looks like it works fine on parity RAM (what the
manual says and experience seems to show).
I'm wondering if anyone is using the Tomcat II and can
vouch for its stability.
I'd like to get a board that doesn't top out at 166
and yet is still stable. The S1462 has been a great
board to have -- I'd like to date its younger sister
now ;)
Cheers....
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