> > Anyone using the Asus P2BDS, PII with SMP Linux with good and bad > > experiences. > > Is this the older 66MHz bus board? That was the main board I was > considering, and from what I've seen on the list it should do just > fine. There were some problems with the onboard Adaptec drivers, but > they got adopted by a new hacker, and Adaptec has become more open to > the Linux community, so the problems are either solved or being fixed as > we speak. > > Linus recently posted about receiving a new 4-way PII-400 from Intel and > apparently it did a full kernel compile in just over a minute. > > My own purchase plans are on hold until at least the 4-way 100MHz boards > stabilize. I figure I may only get a pair of the 66MHz processors to > start with, but a year down the road 400MHz CPUs will be cheaper than > 266MHz ones are today, I can pop four of them into it and it'll still be > a screamer a year after buying it. That would be hard to say about most > any other computer, even with a CPU upgrade. :) > > Just for reference, as of last spring you could get a 2-way 266MHz PII > system with a pair of 3GB SCSI drives, a TR-4 tape, 256MB memory, a > couple 10/100 ethernet cards, and the usual tidbits for about C$4k with > taxes. >
Actually, that is supposed to be the latest PII BX (100MHz) boards from
ASUS (excluding the EX boards that just got released today). I just did a
check on the included SCSI chip and it is the AIC7890 which is still in
the alpha stage so I'm looking at the ASUS P2B-D (w/o scsi) and adding an
Adaptec 2940UW PCI card now.
When you say 4 way boards, do you mean with the Pentium II Xeons?
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