On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:41:20AM -0400, Troy Ablan wrote:
> I'm running with an Abit BP6 board. I've had many problems with the
> HPT366 controller, so I bought a promise ATA/100 controller. I recommend
> you don't use ide2 and ide3 on the board.
Okay, having fighted with a BP6 on rpmfind.net for nearly 6 months
using lots of IDE I/O (without the HPT66) using promise boards and
even with the 3Ware contoller, my conclusion is:
It's worth dropping 200$ for a new SMP card and 2 riser boards
for mounting the Celeri in Slot 1
You will save yourself a lot of troubles, lost hours and possibly
data.
> >From what I've read, the BP6 isn't suitable for linux and you'll have more
> problems than would be worth the trouble. Unfortunately, if I continue to
> have problems with this board, I'll have to put another board in and use this
> board with another OS.
The manual of the BP6 comes with a big warning "SMP support is experimental".
I now believe it's due to the fact they knew they shipped an undebugged board
not to the nature of the use of the Celeron in SMP enviroment.
Daniel
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