Re: BP6 (Was Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66)

1999-12-22 Thread Tom Embt
>[SNIP] > >> I would like to know how HOT other people's processors get. In the >> stationary situation I have a system core (= processor average) temperature >> of 46 and a case temperature of 50 degrees Celcius/Centigrade. > >What do you use for temp. watching ? (I fetched a little hack which i

Re: BP6 (Was Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66)

1999-12-22 Thread Matthew Thyer
I know your talking SMP but thought you'd like to know some temps for UP systems as well... I have a Celeron 300a that I overclock to 464 MHz (100 MHz FSB + extra turbo frequency boost) running at 2.1 v and it runs at about 30 degrees celcius when idle and at 52 degrees when running setiathome (w

BP6 (Was Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66)

1999-12-22 Thread Thierry Herbelot
"Dave J. Boers" wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 11:22:12PM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Let's start a thread on the BP6 ? (the release of the board was > > carefully synchronized with stable SMP releases of FreeBSD : kudos to > > the FreeBSD release engineering team ;-)) > > I second th

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-21 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 11:22:12PM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Let's start a thread on the BP6 ? (the release of the board was > carefully synchronized with stable SMP releases of FreeBSD : kudos to > the FreeBSD release engineering team ;-)) I second that! Running -current since October and

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-21 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Let's start a thread on the BP6 ? (the release of the board was carefully synchronized with stable SMP releases of FreeBSD : kudos to the FreeBSD release engineering team ;-)) I've also got one of these babies (dual 460 @ 2.1V) and I'm wondering if I should buy a new PSU (300W, instead of the pre

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-21 Thread Tom Embt
[snip] >> What is the rating of your Power supply ? > >Not quite high enough :-( >It's a 300 Watt power supply. > Hehe - I'm running dual 540's (2.2V) on a BP6 (I'm guessing around 30 Watts per CPU), extra case fan, big CPU fans, CD, TNT and an IDE drive (I've had three hooked up once) - on a 23

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
"Dave J. Boers" wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 07:27:16AM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Do you boot from the UDMA66 drive ? > > Yes. Bios boot sequence is EXT,C,A; where EXT is set to UDMA66, not SCSI. > The SCSI disk is a 4.3 Gb WD Enterprise on an Adaptec 2940AU board. > > > What is

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-18 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 07:27:16AM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Do you boot from the UDMA66 drive ? Yes. Bios boot sequence is EXT,C,A; where EXT is set to UDMA66, not SCSI. The SCSI disk is a 4.3 Gb WD Enterprise on an Adaptec 2940AU board. > What is your BIOS revision ? Award Bios v. 4.51

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-17 Thread Thierry Herbelot
"Dave J. Boers" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just wanted to let you know that I enabled UDMA66 (by plugging in an 80 > conductor cable) on my WDC AC418000D today. The mainboard is an ABit BP6 > with builtin Highpoint HPT366 ATA controller. > > The system works very nicely. I did some heavy testing

RE: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-17 Thread Will Andrews
On 18-Dec-99 Dave J. Boers wrote: > The system works very nicely. I did some heavy testing in single user mode > by moving several 300 Mb files around between the IDE disk and my other > SCSI disk (which got me a sustained transfer rate of over 10 Mb/sec). Then > I made world. Everything works gre