From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Boyer Message-Id: <199911121056.CAA08039@marcus.pants.nu> Subject: Re: [OT] dual 8500 To: velco@fadata.bg (Momchil 'Velco' Velikov) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 02:56:23 -0800 (PST) Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <382B28BD.5A32606F@fadata.bg> from "Momchil 'Velco' Velikov" at Nov 11, 99 10:36:13 pm Content-Type: text Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/