Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:40:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | Zach <> | Subject | Re: SMP and HP LX PRO and linux? |
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:43:14 -0700, Don Fisher wrote: > > >Can anybody point me to information relating to the use of an HP LXPro > >to host a Linux SMP system. They will support 4 PPro 200 MHz > >processors. Any experience/knowledge of proprietary peripheral, > >controller or other problems would be appreciated. > > These system boards are made by Intel under the 'code' name alda (alder? > well at least I know I'm close)
alder. and the chassi is the "poca", i beleive.
anyway, linux runs fine on them, once you get the broken bios to play nice. It was having a grand old time remapping the ethernet cards i/o space out from under it. luckily for me, i worked down the hall from the alder guys so they fed me all the latest bios revs, i don't know if people outside intel would be so lucky. I had a pre-production alder running with 3 ppro166s and a "real" alder running with 2 ppro200s. both with 128meg, dual onboard aic7880s, and the 21040 based smc cards. they made damn snappy little boxes, for being intel hardware. with raid-1 and a pile of nice drives i was getting 24meg/second sustained over 3 drives. the two boxes ended up being nfs archival servers (on the order of 100gig each), they're still in service as far as i know. never a glitch, with smp enabled from day 1.
-- zach
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