From: Brad Boyer <flar@marcus.pants.nu>
To: velco@fadata.bg (Momchil 'Velco' Velikov)
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [OT] dual 8500
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 02:56:23 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199911121056.CAA08039@marcus.pants.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <382B28BD.5A32606F@fadata.bg> from "Momchil 'Velco' Velikov" at Nov 11, 99 10:36:13 pm
Momchil 'Velco' Velikov wrote:
> Does anyone of you have any experience (either good or bad)
> with PowerMac 8500 with dual-processor card and Linux ?
I have both good and bad experiences with dual processor cards,
although I was using a 7600. When it works, it is wonderful, but
it occasionally gets confused in interesting ways. It seems to be
very sensitive to everything, and I had to rearrange the RAM in
the slots to get Linux to work. It somtimes requires the MacOS
extensions to load to reinitialize stuff if it crashes in a bad
state. It will make Linux much faster, tho. I replaced a 132MHz
604 board with a dual 200MHz 604e one and it was a very nice change.
> I intend to obtain one, but I definitely want to run
> Linux on it. I don't care much if MacOS doesn't work
> on such a machine.
They work fine in the MacOS, but you won't see much improvement
on most things.
Brad Boyer
flar@pants.nu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-12 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-11 20:36 [OT] dual 8500 Momchil 'Velco' Velikov
1999-11-12 10:56 ` Brad Boyer [this message]
1999-11-11 20:13 ` David Riley
1999-11-12 14:00 ` Erik Winkler
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