Greg Lynn wrote:
>
> I know that question has been around before but
> I was thinking about getting a asus p2b-ds with
> ecc memory and 2 pii 350mhz cpus and I was
> wondering how kernel 3.2 does with smp?
I run a P2B-DS with 2 PII-350's (bios 1008). Nice motherboard, but I
don't know about ECC. The only thing you have to keep in mind, is that
some linux programs do not run under FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE-SMP. Especially
wine fails. You'll have to wait for 4.0 to have that fixed.
> Is there
> tweaks you can perform to the kernel?
I have
device apm0 at isa? flags 0x20
instead of the standard
device apm0 at isa? disable flags 0x31
to fix/avoid some timer problems which result in a wrong behaviour of
`top' and others. It could be that bios 1009 fixes this. It has
something to do with the Y2K compliance. I you are about to buy a new
MB, it will almost certainly have bios 1009 or even 1010.
> Also, is the
> adaptec-7890 chipset on this board supported well
> with CAM in the 3.2 kernel?
Yes, never had any problems. Only in the early days of 3.0-CURRENT I've
had a minor performance issue. I recently installed a machine with a
P2B-S motherboard and a Quantum atlas 9 Gb disk. The output of `bonnie'
showed numbers above 20Mb/s.
Koen.
--
Dr. K.R.A.M. Schreel | Eindhoven University of Technology
| Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Combustion Research | Section Energy Technology
| P. O. Box 513
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
