Hi,
> > To my understanding, the VP6 is *not* the replacement board for the BP6. In
> > fact, the VP6, in its "natural" form, cannot recognize 2 Celeron processors.
>
> Oh, i guess all of us are stuck with our bp6's :o(.
Yes, more than one year old and still the best mainboard on earth.
I still have more than 10 BP6 running, all of them with 2 Celerons,
all of them overclocked between 94 MHz and 104 MHz instead of 66 MHz,
all of them rock solid and with a memory throughput like "modern" 133 MHz
designs.
lxi013:0 00:32:20 ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hdg
/dev/hdg:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.03 seconds =124.27 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.19 seconds = 29.22 MB/sec
lxi013:0 00:32:43 ~ #
> My problem is scsi-related.
No chance to blame the BP6 for that.
> If i have more than 1 device on a chain, the scsi bus
> resets after a while and causes all kinds of disruptions. The devices are
> of course terminated correctly and i fiddled with it for many an hour. So
> my expandability has been put to a standstill. I was hoping that my
> processors wouldn't go to waste and i could just swap mainboards. O
> well. Guess i'll ahve to get a dual slot-1 board and slockets. Can
> anyone recommend a good one that works well and is very stable, this box
> will eventually be co-located.
There is only one single aspect to blame your BP6 for this
problem: the missing busmaster DMA capability with one of the
PCI slots 4 and 5 in case the other holds a busmaster DMA device.
This lack of a feature is common with many boards which have more
than 4 PCI slots and/or additional onboard busmaster DMA devices,
and it was discussed about ten times more than enough here.
If this is not your problem and your SCSI adapter is not broken,
maybe your drivers have an IRQ sharing problem. This was discussed
here too more than enough and is in no way BP6 related.
Cheers -e
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