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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!mccall.com!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!caen!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!ramoth!buccaneer!pascal Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dual Pentium MotherBoard. Message-ID: <4dvm3l$ia3@ladystrange.bluehorizon.nl> From: pascal@scylla@ramoth.xs4all.nl (Pascal van Dam) Date: 22 Jan 1996 09:41:09 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc References: <44735j$7qo@kappa.usc.edu> <44evmi$s0p@park.uvsc.edu> Organization: Blue Horizon Software NNTP-Posting-Host: buccaneer.bluehorizon.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 45 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:52415 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems:26269 comp.os.linux.hardware:28246 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13014 Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote: : lamb@kappa.usc.edu (Mathew J. Lamb) wrote: : ] : ] does anyone have any experience of building systems around the : ] Intel (or other) dual pentium motherboard? - are the results : ] favorable or not???? - ie are there any significant problems : ] that you encountered or caveats that you would give? : I recommend ASUS boards. I would stay away from Intel OEM : product division boards because of their handling of PCI Interrupt : assignment (while technically allowed by the spec, they are : terrifically inefficient). : It should be noted that there is no such thing as a Triton based : MP board, so you will be limited to two PCI bus masters in the : same box until SMP support chips can do bus arbitration correctly : for more than two masters. : Avoid boards with RZ1000 based IDE controllers if you can, or if : you can't, disable the IDE and use SCSI or another controller. : Since about 1/3 of all IDE controllers are RZ1000 based, I can't : recommend *any* IDE controllers at this time. : Note that you will not benefit from the multiple processors in : the current or short term projected releases for BSD or Linux. : Terry Lambert : terry@cs.weber.edu : --- : Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present : or previous employers. Looking at the current developers release kernel, SMP makes a fair chance to hit the stable 1.4 release (due out soon) in some primal way.. Best regards, Pascal -- +----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ + Pascal van Dam + Working on: XView rapid prototyper for the free UNIXes + + + + +----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+