Proliant 1600 with 2 CPUs

[Chris Moran]

You may need to play with the APIC settings.  I haven't tried an 800,
but it can't be too different from the others of the same era.

Make sure you've got the latest & greatest firmware for the box as well.
Early firmwares seemed to be a bit ordinary in how they presented SMP to
the OS

-----Original Message-----
From: Gennady Proskurin [mailto:gpr at nvnpp.vrn.ru] 
Sent: Monday, 16 May 2005 5:02 PM
To: Chris Moran
Cc: Turker Dundar; Kris Kennaway; FreeBSD-SMP at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Proliant 1600 with 2 CPUs

Hello, Chris.

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 02:27:56PM +0800, Chris Moran wrote:

> Yes.  You need to use the EISA Setup (even modern systems still use
the
> same basic setup) and hit Ctrl-A with the "Set up" option selected.
> 
> The following settings usually work for me:
> 
> Choose "Full Table: Mapped" for APIC mode
> Choose "Linux" (sorry) or "Unix" for Operating System Type

My proliant 800 doesn't support smp if I choose "Unix" for OS type. Try
choose other OS, that is recognized by BIOS as smp-capable. Windows NT
or so should work.

-- 
Gennady