Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
So, back to the issue at hand. Anybody have fond memories of great 486
or Pentium-based servers (or other arch equivs)?
Doug.
Back in 1999, I picked up several used HP Vectra Pentium 100 desktops
for use as backup backup dial in administration machines at our remote
sites, none have had any failures, not even hard drive failures. We've
never updated the OS since they've never crashed, and the only external
link is a modem. They run mgetty+ssh on the internal lan interface.
The one at the site with the most reliable power has been running for
quite a while...
uptime
10:38PM up 1294 days, 4:07, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Most of the others are in the 200-300 day range, all from extended power
outages at the sites.
FreeBSD 3.3-19990914-RC #0: Tue Sep 14 12:56:08 GMT 1999
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/STDOD
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 99546682 Hz
CPU: Pentium/P54C (99.55-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping = 5
Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
avail memory = 29786112 (29088K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02c9000.
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0: <Host to PCI bridge (vendor=1004 device=0007)> rev 0x01 on pci0.0.0
chip1: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=1004 device=0008)> rev 0x01 on pci0.1.0
vga0: <Cirrus Logic GD5434 SVGA controller> rev 0xfc on pci0.5.0
wdc0: <CMD 640B IDE> rev 0x02 int a irq 14 on pci0.7.0
Probing for PnP devices:
CSN 1 Vendor ID: TCM5095 [0x95506d50] Serial 0xafd0e43c Comp ID: @@@0000
[0x00000000]
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 on isa
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard
atkbd0 irq 1 on isa
psm0 not found
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff on isa
wdc0: CMD640B workaround enabled
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC2850H>, multi-block-16
wd0: 814MB (1667232 sectors), 1654 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1 not found at 0x170
ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa
ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300
ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa
ep0: utp[*UTP*] address 00:20:af:d0:e4:3c
vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug
changing root device to wd0s1a
