Re: AMD Based Motherboards
- From: Mike Luther <mike.luther@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:09:10 +0000
Hi Peter!
Peter Brown wrote:
Hi Eric
Eric Erickson wrote:What are new AMD motherboards are folks having eCS Success with. Looking for
the following minimum characteristics.
AMD based motherboard
parallel (1P)
serial (1P)
IDE (1CH)
floppy controllers
SATA minimum 2 channels
SMP Capable is a nice to have.
TIA
Eric Erickson
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"SMP Capable" is probably all that are on offer - all mainboards I've looked at come with single or multi core cpu support.
If you plan on using multicore CPUs then I suggest you look at other mainboards as ACPI support - required for SMP - is currently a bit lacking for AMD chipsets.
If "AMD based motherboard" simply means to use AMD CPUs rather than specifying the chipset then I have had a fair amount of success with mainbards based on nVidia nForce4/430 chipsets and AMD64 x2 CPUs so would suggest a mainbard based on nVidia chipsets. If you want a brand my 1st choice would be Asus http://uk.asus.com/ - select appropriate Area/Country.
Regards
Pete
What is a working choice still available for Intel with up to G45 chipset level which is still covered in the SNAP 318 code .. or AMD CPU's as you note? Folks around me are looking for:
parallel (1P)
serial (2P)
IDE (1CH)
floppy controllers - preferably A and B both (2 drives).
SATA minimum 2 channels
At least two PCI slots - preferably three
I'd really like to stay with Intel but AMD is sure there. Further, I'd really like to know what folks have now which is working with MCP2 latest level stuff. Which is really as I think of focus for the finalization work for eCs now.
The Intel 915GAVL and GEVL stuff works fine now but isn't produced. I've not been able to research the Intel 945 stuff at all and it is months back already. I've currently gotten a Modular Industrial Solutions SMB-9455 industrial board totally working with their 7062 passive backplane for at least two PCI slots on the backplane. I have it working with:
Intel P4 CPU level.
Intel 945 video complete on SNAP 318
Intel Pro100/1000 NIC chip with Genmac in undocumented mode.
SBlive 5.1 level daughter board audio with the olde 1.0.9+ Uniaud.
Full four plus port serial operation with their daughterboard 3/4 added.
1 parallel port.
1 IDE latest level everything.
SATA drive support.
Fully functional with Adaptec 2940U2W(pro) or 29160 service in PCI slot.
A second Kingston KT120 PCI slot NIC for LAN1 non-forwarded network use.
That with a new Tri-Mag Industrial case with EMP pulse certifiable
protection.
The last glitch still unresolved is that the Phoenix BIOS for the SMB-9455 industrial board will not allow disablement of the VGA video in DOS-VDM use to expand the lower DOS 640K of memory with GGA or MONO video settings.
I've given substantial research data to MIS as well as Veit the author of the 2KSTACK patch release for the Phoenix BIOS for the IBM ThinkPads which cured this. But to date have I no response from Veit or a patch fix from Phoenix for this yet.
This for ongoing 100,000 MTBF server work for us with OS/2. But I have no easy forward buy and try workstation motherboard information yet.
Regardless of where eCs and whatever are headed, it is absolutely critical that anyone who wants to move OS/2 forward, for new .. or protective use, whatever, be able to put a server and a brand new 10-16 unit workstation operation into fully functional hardware 100,000 hour server supported time frame operations in not more than a couple days time. Then move strongly into whatever it takes to train the 20-50 people or more that will use it in the shortest possible time to fruition.
From hardware that has to be supported with a current production run for a really reasonable time frame of availability!
In my opinion! Which I am trying to support, GDRFC!
Suggestions?
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--> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)
Mike Luther
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