>Remember that disks are now numbered in the sequence in which
>they are found (as under the SCSI system), not in absolute
>positions as they were with the old system. For example, if you
>had wd0 and wd2 but no wd1, you'll now have wd0 and wd1. Watch
>out f
I understand that you can purchase special motherboards (probably only from
AMD) for SMP K6-2's (possibly they'll take -3's as well). I doubt (without
trying) the freebsd code supports this style as it's not done in the normal
fashion. They kind of cheated the chips into working together. Not a
I can't code, so I wouldn't know how to implement these. Or even if it's
possible.
Parallel device loading. I know that freebsd's boot sequence can continue
loading new devices while waiting for other devices to respond with irq's
and whatnot. However, could this be taken a step further and hav