On Tue, 11 Apr 100, Christopher L. Rogers wrote:
> I have been having a tough time getting a system up that
> consists of the supermicro PIIIDME board (840 chipset),
> PC 133 ram, and 2 PIII 733 Coppermines. I have the front side bus
> set to 133MHz.
We recently starting putting a number of these machines together for a
cluster. But we are using PC-100 Registered ram and only PIII-550s
(100Mhz). The book that comes with the PIIIDME states that using PC-133RAM
won't help since the memory bus runs at 100Mhz. Page 3-3
> Using a 2.2.5-15 kernel, I notice that
> the eepro100 onboard nic isn't recognized, and more importantly,
We are using the 2.2.14 kernel and have found that you really need to
compile the driver into the kernel and *not* load it as a module. We have
gotten very sporadic results with having the drive load as a module.
Kickstart will fail almost all of the time if you use a recent bootnet.img
> Using 2.3.99-pre3, I get the unexpected IO-APIC warning,
> the nic is recognized, and /proc/cpuinfo reports correctly
> 256K cache for each. However the bogomips (which i believe
> should roughly equal 733 for each processor) reports 1466 for EACH
> processor.
Haven't tried a kernel newer than 2.2.14. Our boxes are quite happy with
dual 550 Katmai processors..
I only posted the message to let you know that these boards do work with
Linux. At least in our configuration they do. You do have to specify to
linux how much RAM you are using (at least in the 2.2.x series)
Tim
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