Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:34:23 -0700 (PDT) | From | System Email <> | Subject | Re: PentiumII's. |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Joel Philip Jaeggli wrote:
> > > On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Aaron J. Grier wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, System Email wrote: > > > > > Does linux support PentiumII's (does it work?) > > Certainly. We've got 2.0.30 running on two PentiumII 233's [1] here at > > OGI. Kernel compiles in 3 minutes or so. :) > > However, the Intel PD440FX motherboard's BIOS is absolutely horrendous, > > and I was stuck for a couple weeks just banging out IRQ conflicts since > > you can't manually assign them on a per-slot basis, and the BIOS was > > handing out duplicates, which the aic7xxx driver didn't particularly like. > > (I've since gotten patches...) > > > > Plenty fast, though. (: > > I was very pleased both with the performance and the behavior of my ami > bios based tyan 1682d (dual pentium II) board. Of course the chipset is > still the 440fx and can still only cache 512mb worth of memory but I don't > think that's an issue for your average desktop machine in any event.. The > 440gz which is supposed to push that number out to 768mb and include some > other things like ultra-dma ide support is supposed to be out shortly I'm > told. SDRAM suport would be nice but it doesn't seem to exist in any > available ppro/pII chipset. >
Is SDRAM differnt then ECC 168pin DIMMS? Because theres a asus board that has 1DIMM slot.
Here is the machine I pondering putting together.
Matrox Millennium II 4Meg 9GB SCSI-3 UltraWide ASUS KN97-X MotherBoard w/ sound Pentium II 300mhz w/512k Adaptech 2940 SCSI-3 Ultrawide adaptor 128MB ECC DIMM
This board only has one dimm slot. But I think 128megs of ram will for for now.
> joelja > __________________________________________________________________________ > Joel Jaeggli joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu > Academic User Services consult@gladstone.uoregon.edu > ANTC & NSRC joelja@ns.uoregon.edu > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray, > Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right > answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of > confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." > -- Charles Babbage > >
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