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List:       linux-smp
Subject:    Re: Wierdness
From:       John Aldrich <john () chattanooga ! net>
Date:       1999-09-25 16:43:01
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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, pape@ph.ucla.edu wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I should just chalk this up to "flaky hardware" or
> > whether it's something to do with Mandrake or what. Here's the
> > situation: I have a dual-ppro 200 (only one processor running right
> > now... SMP locks the machine up tight on boot-up!) with 192 megs of
> > ram. Mandrake detects the ram just fine. I also have an Advansys
> > ABP-940UA Ultra SCSI card hooked into a 8.5 GB SCSI drive, but I boot
> > off an 850 mb IDE.
> > I normally have to boot twice before I can get a reasonable Bogomips
> > count. Typically I get about 1% of the "normal" bogomips at first
> > boot and full bogomips after I reboot. For example, right now I think
> 
> A lot of motherboard/bios combinations do this.  My W6LI dual ppro mb does
> this on a regular basis.  If the machine is interrupted during a reboot,
> it reboots again with BIOS defaults, and runs extremely slowly.  Another
> reboot results in it using normal BIOS settings and it runs at full speed.
> 
Should I be running my W6LI in MP1.4 mode or 1.1 mode? I have been
given to understand that some systems don't like 1.4 mode.
	Thanks...
	John
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