On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 03:22:55PM -0500, Harry Zuzan wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I will be purchasing a dual processor, and although I have
> been setting up linux and using it for years, it has been
> mostly from a programmer's point of view. I don't know
> that much about hardware. Hence, I would appreciate if
> some of you would be kind enough to look at the system that
> I am proposing. If you have one almost like it and you
> have had no problems then I could always make changes required
> to make sure that I have little trouble getting a dual processor
> up and running and stable.
>
> I have checked the FAQ and all looks well except for the
> Symbios controller on the Intel N440BX motherboard. This
> is a new feature, as far as I can tell, and I don't know if a driver
> is available to support it. I have stuck with a PCI video
> card because I have had bad luck configuring X with an AGP
> video card. If there are good AGP cards with good drivers
> available, then I can switch. I am planning on using the
> slackware 3.5 distribution to install linux.
>
> Here is the system:
>
> Dual Pentium II 400
> Intel N440BX motherboard (Supports dual 233-400)
> On board EIDE w/ 16550 I/O & ECP/EPP
> *Integrated Symbios 53C876 Dual Channel SCSI Contoller(1 wide, 1 narrow)
> Flash Bios / Intell BX chipset
> 1 x 128MB SDRAM (100MHz)
> 9.1GB Quantum Viking UltraWide SCSI Hard Drive
> 1.44MB floppy drive
> 32x IDE CD-ROM
> ATI 3D Xpression+PC2TV 4MB PCI video card
> Intel ETherExpress Pro 10/100 PCI NIC
>
> I don't like to cut corners that only save a few dollars so
> suggestions for improvements would be welcome, especially
> since I need this machine up and running all the time.
>
I have an older Symbios Controller running just fine in one of our SMP Servers.
/usr/src/linux-2.1.129/drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx lists 876 as supported,
so this should be just fine.
Your configuration looks fine to me except that i would suggest 256MB
RAM (No RAM, no fun :-) and i personally would _never_ use a Quantum
hard disk for a Linux machine which should be up and running all the time.
Ciao
Dietmar
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