Thanks for the info. These machines are for a cluster as well
It is encouraging to here that there exists a config in which
these boards will work.
I called supermicro about the pc133
awhile ago and they said it shouldn't matter (we had the pc133
already). telling lilo about the memory is something i knew about
also. Thanks again
>
> 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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