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Hi Ted,
All I've got and can afford is right now is the old
stuff I already have. I want to use the Netserver, not
only to experiment with dual processors, but also because
I have never worked with scsi or hardware raid before,
only ide. You're exactly right too, what you said about
folks like me trying to milk way too much out of old
systems. It's a PII 300 dual-processor, not that the 2
processors help a lot, and I do have smp in the kernel.
I've watched top's output while running a clamav scan.
The whole thing bogs down. X is slow too, but works.
Thought about overclocking, but don't want to burn it
up yet. Still okay tho, for nfs & ssh on my lan and
later a firewall box too. Added this to the kernel
options EISA_SLOTS=12
and rebuilt it, but it doesn't help. I'll keep on picking
at it until I'm satisfied I've tweaked it all I can.
Thanks for the help and advice.
Denny
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Hi Denny,
I used to admin a network with a number of those systems on it
but it's been years since I've dealt with one, so I've forgotten
everything from the BIOS screen. But I did know that HP had the
manuals online, so when you said you had no manual for it, I
naturally assumed that you were unaware that HP is still supporting
them (after a fashion) and that a few minutes work would get you the
manual. Now, if you had posted something like "I read the manual
and the option isn't in there" that would have been different.
You could try running eisaconfig on it and setting the Operating
System parameter to SCO Unix or some such, but I don't know if this
is even an option, much less if it would work.
I have a customer that ran one of these systems for years with
FreeBSD 4.X on it (4.8 I think) so I know that the 4.x series will
at least run on them. As I recall these are Pentium 200Hmz systems,
correct? If so, FreeBSD 5.X won't get you anything more than
what you would get for 4.X. These systems made really
nice, solid little servers in their day. Even today they are
good for small tasks like network monitoring, etc. and if I were
in your shoes I would certainly want to use the system if I had
something for it that wasn't too taxing on the CPU. But you
are like a lot of people who have posted on this forum in the
last few years who have tried pushing older hardware to run
FreeBSD 5.X, sometimes it works but most of the time it doesen't
seem to. I never even bother booting 5.X on anything that isn't
at minimum a Pentium II 500Mhz system nowadays.
The only other suggestion I would make is to ask in a hardware
forum, or on Usenet in a hardware forum.
Ted
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Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 10:07 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: HP LC II Netserver PNP BIOS
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Spent several sleepless nights searching
hp's site before asking my question. Guess
I refused to accept the obvious, that you
could only reserve resources for non pnp
devices that fbsd couldn't probe. I also
tried acpi, since the docs say it has a
different method of probing. See, I did
read it. I just hoped someone else might
know something I'd missed or didn't under-
stand. Always try to do my research before
posting on here. Don't always understand
what I read, but I keep reading. And I don't
post questions like "Help", or "I can't
install FreeBSD, what'll I do"? But hey,
thanks for being there, old sport.
On Sun, 29 May 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 3:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: HP LC II Netserver PNP BIOS
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Okay, the following definitely shows the
BIOS in this old Netserver is PNP. I ran
biosdecode on it and got this:
Slot Entry 10: ID 00:0d, on-board
Can anyone tell me how to disable PNP in this
particular computer? I have no manual on it.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Resource.jsp?l
ocale=en_U
S&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=50440&prodTypeId=15351
RTFM first, then come here.
Ted
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