Hello,
Just for the sake of clarity, are you *now* able to run SMP on that board?
As the BIOS('s) go, Tyan has two that I am aware of. The most recent one added
suppport UDMS(2) 66 and faster/ wider SCSI, among other things. It
would probably
be a good investment to re-locate your previous (un-working) BIOS back
into the
motherboard and flash it (up) to the newer version. Might fix what ails
it. Also
there is a project on SourceForge (recently updated and ruined -
SourceForge, that
is)
that allows you to edit/ enhance/ repair your BIOS. I've used it quite
a bit and
I have found it very useful.
Best wishes.
Quoting Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Mark Kirkwood wrote:
Network Operations Center wrote:
Hello,
I'm burried in work at the momment - part of which is getting caught up on
mail. But I couldn't help but notice your eMail. As I am also running Tyan
S2515's *and* S2518's happily on (SMP)freeBSD. I thought I'd sneek
a peek at
your eMail. I haven't got the time at this momment. But I will
share my KERNCONF
and anything else that comes to mind with you tommorrow
(technically, a little
later today). Till then, best wishes to ya.
Thanks,
Yeah, its got me puzzled - am running 6.0-RELEASE SMP happily on a
S2510... I am suspicious of the cpus themselves (see prev mail in
thread). I have a pair of properly matched 800's that I will swap in
later today and see if they change anything.
Its not the cpus - the 800s exhibit the same behavior (no mptable).
However swapping out the BIOS from a another (faulty) board *did* fix
the problem - the original BIOS was a bit of a strange one - had
settings for booting off USB harddrives... (hmm - disabled APICs to make
USB work maybe...).
Anyway, thanks for your help!
Mark
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