At 13:57 18/03/99 -0500, Andy Poling wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, geerten kuiper wrote:
>> it's time to spend some money on hardware again. This SY-D6IBA seems a
>> reasonably priced mainboard.
>>
>> >From the specs:
>> - dual slot 1
>> - intel BX chipset
>> - winbond977TF IO Chip
>> - Adaptec AIC7880 SCSI controller, Ultra, UltraWide an RAIDport connectors
>> - AWARD Bios
>>
>> Anybody familiar with this ? Is it good for Linux ?
>
>Yes - I am using (and have been for a month or so now) it at 100MHz FSB
>speed with a pair of Celerons. The SoftMenu for setting CPU clocks and
>multipliers is much nicer than jumpers, and the board performs nicely. I'm
>using the on-board Adaptec controller as well, with no problems.
>
>I'm running kernel 2.2.1 on it at the moment.
>
>All in all, I'm very happy with it so far...
>
>-Andy
>
And so I placed my order. And now I'm happy too. A few things though:
(1) At first I got only 3.00 BogoMIPS from the second CPU. I had heard that
this could be solved by including MTRR-support in the kernel. So I did, and
it did.
(I also saw some "CPU#, stuck, wait, IPI" messages, but they also seem to
have disappeared. Don't know if it's related.)
(2) The Adaptec BIOS shows a different drive geometry for my harddisks
(different from my old SymBIOS), so when I connect the drives to the
built-in SCSI the partitiontable seems broken. I cannot boot any OS from
the harddisks. (I can boot my kernel from floppy, and it will find the
correct partitions allright. But this works for Linux only.)
Is there a way to change the geometry in the ADAPTEC setup ?
Or can I boot from floppy, fix the partitiontable, and everything is fine
(even though partitions will not start at cylinder boundaries anymore) ??
Or should I make a full backup and recreate all partitions ???
(For now, I'm just keeping the Symbios card.)
(3) (Guess I can't blame SOYO for the fact that somehow my soundblaster got
nuked during the transfer.)
(4) Is anyone interested in buying:
1 x Tyan Tomcat IV motherboard,
2 x Pentium-MMX 166 MHz CPU's,
4 x 16Mb parity SIMM's ?
Groeten,
Geerten.
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