On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I've heard both good and bad about those boards, but recently picked up one
> > and installed 2 500mhz Celerons in it.
>
> Celerons do not have the pins required to operate in an SMP
> configuration. Lockups should be expected. The IDE device stuff
> is probably only an artifact.
The BP6 specifically works around this problem. It's a socket 370
motherboard specifically designed to SMP celerons. It works well, except
certain configurations have some trouble under Linux.
The Celerons have the SMP core built in, they are only missing the pin.
On slot-1 cpu's this is easy to circumvent (if you have skill with a
soldering iron). There's nothing preventing a Celeron from proper SMP
out of the box other than Intel's greed -- the workaround is simple for
both types of processors.
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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