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From: tdsmith@topeka.cjnetworks.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I need MORE than 120 ptys........please help
Date: 22 Feb 1997 04:56:20 GMT
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In article <5ekmgp$mp@skunkworks.specialty.ab.ca>,
jbg@skunkworks.specialty.ab.ca (Jason George) writes:
>Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
>: Hal Lynch wrote:
>: > I have a Compaq Deskpro 5100 with a 100mhz Pentium, 81920K bytes
>: > of memory and Free BSD 2.1.5 running a gateway application for our
>
>: How much memory? 81MB? That's kind of an odd amount. :) I'll assume
>: you typo'd in a 0 and what you actually meant was 8MB, in which case
>[snip]
>
>Jordan, you forgot the key word in Hal's post... Compaq. :-)
>
>As anyone who's ever put their head in a Compaq engine bay in the (usually)
>futile attempt to debug a hardware problem will agree, there is compatible
>and then there's Compaq-compatible. <smirk> I've seen Compaq
>systems with odd amounts of RAM : 40M, 72M, 80M. Why those amounts?
>Usually because some purchasing manager thought it would be cool to have
>something "different". Blech!
I'll second the "Compaq-compatible." I admin three Prolinea 5100e (among
other) machines at work. (I did most emphatically *NOT* recommend this
pig-slow trio of garbage.) No secondary cache. No problem, just order
some standard COAST modules, or so I thought. Hardware guy sends over
three standard modules in interoffice, we down a box, plug in the cache,
and the frigging thing fails POST! (From the sound, I'm not even sure
that it *starts* POST.) We tried all three modules in all three boxes,
and all fail POST. We call the hardware guy, he calls Compaq, and we're
told that we're basically screwed. I don't know if Compaq has a module
that works, or if it's so hideously expensive that it'd be cheaper to buy
a Cray T3E, but we ended up with no L2 cache. The motherboard has some
weird proprietary memory architecture, too, that allows SIMMs to be
installed singly--32-bit path to memory. These things are slower than
the 486/66 that I sit in front of, and I host Office 97 for our subnet!
('course that 486 is an HP NetServer 4/66LF with SCSI-2, albeit with only
24MB of RAM.) Only one PCI slot, too.
Absolute fucking garbage.
Troy Smith