It seems that the only way to get back on topic is to start a new thread. <grin> For those of you who care and were possibly considering a new Supermicro motherboard, I wanted to give a status report of my new SMP system. I purchased a SuperMicro P6DGU, twin P2/400's, and 256MB ECC PC100. The only part I was worried about (for compatability) was the Ultra2 SCSI on the motherboard. I already have two BT-958's and a BT-948 to go along with the aic7890. I bought a new Ultrastar 9ES (Ultra2) to slap on the Ultra2 connector as my boot disk. I have seven other UW-SCSI HD's, a SyJet, 4mm DAT, and CD spread over the BusLogic cards. The on-board ATA controllers are disabled as they should be. <grin> The other cards include a Netgear FA310TX, Millennium G200 AGP, and a SB32AWE ISA (which isn't working yet. ) I was running 2.0.36, but decided to go with 2.1.131 for now. 2.0.36 correctly ran the Ultra2 at 80MB/s, but the aic7xxx driver in 2.1.131 isn't the latest and runs it at 20MB/s. No problem. As far as stability goes, I haven't had a problem since I installed the machine last friday. It seems that the P6DGU board is an excellent choice. The retail kit came with all three SCSI cables, including a self-terminating Ultra2 cable and the standard 68-pin UW cable even has an internal-to-external adapter on the end. (not that I'm using it) Not a bad deal for $360. Actually, I did have one problem. I tried to compile the kernel with "make -j 20" and ran out of processes and make couldn't fork() any more gcc's. (isn't the stock kernel limited to about 300 processes?) No big deal. Rc5 is cranking away at 2.2 million keys/sec. Oh, and I'm going to shut it down and overcloc.... <ducking> -Wayne http://www.wec.ufl.edu/staff/hydew - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
