On Thu, 27 May 2004, Jimmy Wales wrote:
- When I get to the colocation facility, I will do whatever I need
to do to get 3 of the 4 1U servers online immediately -- the Wikipedia
I'll assume somewhere in there you'll make some attempts to get SATA DMA enabled as per our earlier discussions off list? I tried both those kernels on my Dell Diminsion 8300 which has a similar ICH5 although the Dell BIOS doesn't support putting the controller in "legacy" mode. Both see the PATA and SATA drives just fine w/ DMA. The console log is in the same place as the kernels.
I would not recommend using either of those kernels for anything but tests as I didn't have enough information to know exactly what needs to be enabled (eg. I might not have built the right network driver module...)
they have a slow isdn line
I feel their pain (and moved to a cable modem.)
Here are the specs...
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Do you know what MB is in the system? Is the memory configuration NUMA -- each CPU has it's own memory pool? (This is a important thing to know and should be noted for building an optimized kernel. There is a slight performance penalty for "off cpu" memory access.)
--Ricky