Re: BP6 (Was Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66)

1999-12-22 Thread Tom Embt
>[SNIP] > >> I would like to know how HOT other people's processors get. In the >> stationary situation I have a system core (= processor average) temperature >> of 46 and a case temperature of 50 degrees Celcius/Centigrade. > >What do you use for temp. watching ? (I fetched a little hack which i

Re: BP6 (Was Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66)

1999-12-22 Thread Matthew Thyer
I know your talking SMP but thought you'd like to know some temps for UP systems as well... I have a Celeron 300a that I overclock to 464 MHz (100 MHz FSB + extra turbo frequency boost) running at 2.1 v and it runs at about 30 degrees celcius when idle and at 52 degrees when running setiathome (w

BP6 (Was Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66)

1999-12-22 Thread Thierry Herbelot
"Dave J. Boers" wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 11:22:12PM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Let's start a thread on the BP6 ? (the release of the board was > > carefully synchronized with stable SMP releases of FreeBSD : kudos to > > the FreeBSD release engineering team ;-)) > > I second th

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-21 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 11:22:12PM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Let's start a thread on the BP6 ? (the release of the board was > carefully synchronized with stable SMP releases of FreeBSD : kudos to > the FreeBSD release engineering team ;-)) I second that! Running -current since October and

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-21 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Let's start a thread on the BP6 ? (the release of the board was carefully synchronized with stable SMP releases of FreeBSD : kudos to the FreeBSD release engineering team ;-)) I've also got one of these babies (dual 460 @ 2.1V) and I'm wondering if I should buy a new PSU (300W, instead of the pre

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-21 Thread Tom Embt
[snip] >> What is the rating of your Power supply ? > >Not quite high enough :-( >It's a 300 Watt power supply. > Hehe - I'm running dual 540's (2.2V) on a BP6 (I'm guessing around 30 Watts per CPU), extra case fan, big CPU fans, CD, TNT and an IDE drive (I've had three hooked up once) - on a 23

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
"Dave J. Boers" wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 07:27:16AM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Do you boot from the UDMA66 drive ? > > Yes. Bios boot sequence is EXT,C,A; where EXT is set to UDMA66, not SCSI. > The SCSI disk is a 4.3 Gb WD Enterprise on an Adaptec 2940AU board. > > > What is

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-18 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 07:27:16AM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Do you boot from the UDMA66 drive ? Yes. Bios boot sequence is EXT,C,A; where EXT is set to UDMA66, not SCSI. The SCSI disk is a 4.3 Gb WD Enterprise on an Adaptec 2940AU board. > What is your BIOS revision ? Award Bios v. 4.51

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-17 Thread Thierry Herbelot
"Dave J. Boers" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just wanted to let you know that I enabled UDMA66 (by plugging in an 80 > conductor cable) on my WDC AC418000D today. The mainboard is an ABit BP6 > with builtin Highpoint HPT366 ATA controller. > > The system works very nicely. I did some heavy testing

RE: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-17 Thread Will Andrews
On 18-Dec-99 Dave J. Boers wrote: > The system works very nicely. I did some heavy testing in single user mode > by moving several 300 Mb files around between the IDE disk and my other > SCSI disk (which got me a sustained transfer rate of over 10 Mb/sec). Then > I made world. Everything works gre

Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-17 Thread Dave J. Boers
Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I enabled UDMA66 (by plugging in an 80 conductor cable) on my WDC AC418000D today. The mainboard is an ABit BP6 with builtin Highpoint HPT366 ATA controller. The system works very nicely. I did some heavy testing in single user mode by moving several