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Igor Markov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> part of this posting has appeared in linux-kernel list earlier
> today, and I thought I could ask more hard-ware specific questions here.
> Please cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] when replying.
>
> I am currently running an out-of-the box RedHat6.0
> (no kernel rebuilds/upgrades) on a single Pentium 150 w 96Mb/3.2Gb
>
> My upgrade is motivated by two factors
>
> o our lab has a number of spare Pentium II/350 processors donated
> from Intel and the multi-proc. motherboards do not look too much
> pricier than uni-proc. ones.
>
> o the latest gcc/g++2.95.1 (http://egcs.cygnus.com) can finally
> compile my C++ code and I am not anymore confined to SunPro CC
> or MSVC++
>
> I've been told that gcc2.95 may miscompile recent kernels, so I am
> trying to find kernel-smp*rpm. The latest I could find were 2.2.5-22
> at rpmfind.net. Are there any more up-to-date RPMs? (that one is signed
> by RedHat, w/o an email address). Was the SPM performance improved
> considerably after 2.2.5 ? (I see that a bug was solved that kicked in
> with some networking cards... I think I have such a card, but it's not
> used since I have no Ethernet connection).
>
> I've been told that there aren't 4-processor motherboards
> for Pentium II, so I went to motherboard.com and found [only] two
> reasonable-looking PCI motherboards.
>
> ABIT BP6 ($150) http://www.mssi.com/bp62.htm
> IWILL DBD100 ($185) http://www.mssi.com/dbd100.htm
>
> BP6 has DMA66 that I don't really need it with an old hard drive.
> OTOH, it only has 3 SDRAM slots, while DBD100 has four.
> DBD100 claims to be tunable to 133Mhz, but BP6 is "jumperless"
> (everything is controlled by software)
>
> any comments on these? are there other good ones?
>
> thanks,
>
> Igor
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