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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!news.abs.net!u1.abs.net!not-for-mail From: howardl@u1.abs.net (Howard Leadmon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Tyan Tomcat II @ P5-166 or P5-200 Will It Work? Date: 19 Aug 1996 04:08:01 GMT Organization: ABSnet Internet Services - sales@abs.net - (410)-361-8160 Lines: 55 Message-ID: <4v8pb1$ii8@news.abs.net> References: <cnordin.840091850@news.vni.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: u1.abs.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PLMC.960428] Craig Nordin <cnordin@hq.vni.net> wrote: : : 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. Well I have the dual CPU board as well, but since BSDi only supports one CPU that is how it's currently running. I do have the 512K Pipeline Cache module, and haven't had any lockups (knock on wood :-)). I have heard that in a Dual CPU environment the 512K module has trouble, but that the 256K module will work fine. Can anybody verify this, or provide some type of explanation?? : 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. I sure would love to see this, but I am not holding my breath.. : 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 am currently running my board in ECC mode, as it seemed like the best option as I don't believe the just generating the parity error would be of any real benefit. As it can only correct a single bit error, hopefully any real problem would really generate an error condition. : I'm wondering if anyone is using the Tomcat II and can : vouch for its stability. As mentioned above I am currently running the board in Single-CPU mode under BSDi 2.1. This machine is one of my NetNews servers, and gets the tail run off of it. So I would have to say from my side of the farm this board is looking very good.. : cnordin@vni.net Fly VNI: Send E-Mail to info@vni.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet : howardl@abs.net | Howard D. Leadmon UUCP : wb3ffv!howardl | ABSnet Internet Services PHONE : (410)-361-8160 | 200 E. Lexington Street FAX : (410)-361-8162 | Suite-1602 PACKET : WB3FFV @ WB3FFV.MD.USA.NA | Baltimore, MD 21202 WWW : http://www.abs.net |