Operating Systems

    First of all, we installed Windows 2000 RC2.  The install worked fine, although we discovered it only installed the single processor HAL.  The reason for this we discovered later was that if this system runs a one CPU operating system, then soft boots, the bios will only set up for one processor.  Don't know why, as a muli-processor soft boot and a hard boot both work fine.  To solve this, I changed to a mult-processor HAL in device manager.  The reason for the first attempt to be Windows was the InfoManager.  This is a tool supplied by ALR that shows things like fan speed, processor temp, and power supply voltages.  With this we could determine how healthy the system really was.

   Next came FreeBSD, the OS of choice. This is operating system that has been running for the last few weeks.  All processors were detected fine, as well as the Adaptec SCSI controller.  Four SETI@home sessions, apache, and various other activities gave the machine a bit of a stress test, with no problems.

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FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #7: Sun Nov 14 00:21:01 CST 1999
root@alrbsd:/usr/src/sys/compile/ALRBSD
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium Pro (686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x619 Stepping = 9
Features=0xfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV>
real memory = 100663296 (98304K bytes)
avail memory = 94937088 (92712K bytes)
Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #0
EISA INTCONTROL = 00000e00
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard
cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 6, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
cpu2 (AP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
cpu3 (AP): apic id: 2, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
io0 (APIC): apic id: 3, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec00000
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02bd000.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
eisa0: <ALRa441 (System Board)>
Probing for devices on the EISA bus
chip0: <Intel 82375EB PCI-EISA bridge> rev 0x15 on pci0.2.0
vga0: <Matrox MGA 1024SG/1064SG/1164SG graphics accelerator> rev 0x02 int a irq
9 on pci0.14.0
chip1: <Intel 82453KX/GX (Orion) PCI memory controller> rev 0x05 on pci0.20.0
chip2: <Intel 82454KX/GX (Orion) host to PCI bridge> rev 0x06 on pci0.25.0
chip3: <Intel 82454KX/GX (Orion) host to PCI bridge> rev 0x06 on pci0.26.0
ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x01 int a irq 10 on pci1.11.0
ahc0: aic7880 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
xl0: <3Com 3c900B-TPO Etherlink XL> rev 0x04 int a irq 11 on pci1.15.0
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:04:6c:d8:6d
xl0: autonegotiation not supported
Probing for PnP devices:
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 on isa
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard
atkbd0 irq 1 on isa
psm0 irq 12 on isa
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa
ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
pcf0 at 0x320 irq 5 on isa
vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcf0: <PCF8584 I2C bus controller>
iicbus0: <Philips I2C bus> on pcf0 addr 0xaa
iicsmb0: <I2C to SMB bridge> on iicbus0

smbus0: <System Management Bus> on iicsmb0
smb0: <SMBus general purpose I/O> on smbus0
iic0: <I2C general purpose I/O> on iicbus0
APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
APIC_IO: routing 8254 via pin 2
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
changing root device to da0s1a
da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <CONNER CFP2105S 2.14GB 2B4B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 2048MB (4194304 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261C)
cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
cd0: <NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:501 2.2> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers
cd0: cd present [233694 x 2048 byte records]