Re: Few Qs regarding COMPAQ Proliant 6500

From: Mario Mikocevic (mozgy@hinet.hr)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 02:00:42 EST


Hi,

> >> Any pointers ? Patches to apply ?
> >
> > Don't you people hate to followup yourself ..
> >
> > Anyway it's updated RH70 on 2.4.3 kernel !
>
> You didn't mention what type of 6500 it is? PPro? PII? PIII? How man
> processors installed?

COMPAQ Proliant 6500 (P11), two PIII ->

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 499.870
cache size : 1024 KB

Latest BIOS flashed (11/08/2000) and with 4.90 smartstart set as Linux.

> We use almost exclusively proliants where I work, most 3000's, but we do
> have a 6500 that is a quad PPro 200. I have spoke with Compaq and they
> didn't believe there was any driver
> for the LCD screen nor were they going to contribute to one (this was
> about a year ago.)

Well, I was hoping that that is changed !:)

> The 6500 also used to freeze up a lot under NT4, but since switching to
> linux we have experienced no ill effects with it.

We have here 14 6500 and few 800 and all of them (except that one) work
fine so far.

ps
        any other relevant info avaiable on request

TIA

-- 
Mario Mikočević (Mozgy)
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