SMP kernel but no SMP detected on Tyan S2515

[Network Operations Center]

Hello,
Just for the sake of clarity, are you *now* able to run SMP on that board?
As the BIOS('s) go, Tyan has two that I am aware of. The most recent one added
suppport UDMS(2) 66 and faster/ wider SCSI, among other things. It 
would probably
be a good investment to re-locate your previous (un-working) BIOS back 
into the
motherboard and flash it (up) to the newer version. Might fix what ails 
it. Also
there is a project on SourceForge (recently updated and ruined - 
SourceForge, that
is)
that allows you to edit/ enhance/ repair your BIOS. I've used it quite 
a bit and
I have found it very useful.

Best wishes.


Quoting Mark Kirkwood <markir at paradise.net.nz>:

> Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> Network Operations Center wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I'm burried in work at the momment - part of which is getting caught up on
>>> mail. But I couldn't help but notice your eMail. As I am also running Tyan
>>> S2515's *and* S2518's happily on (SMP)freeBSD. I thought I'd sneek 
>>> a peek at
>>> your eMail. I haven't got the time at this momment. But I will 
>>> share my KERNCONF
>>> and anything else that comes to mind with you tommorrow 
>>> (technically, a little
>>> later today). Till then, best wishes to ya.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Yeah, its got me puzzled - am running 6.0-RELEASE SMP happily on a
>> S2510... I am suspicious of the cpus themselves (see prev mail in
>> thread). I have a pair of properly matched 800's that I will swap in
>> later today and see if they change anything.
>>
>>
>
> Its not the cpus - the 800s exhibit the same behavior (no mptable).
>
> However swapping out the BIOS from a another (faulty) board *did* fix
> the problem - the original BIOS was a bit of a strange one - had
> settings for booting off USB harddrives... (hmm - disabled APICs to make
> USB work maybe...).
>
> Anyway, thanks for your help!
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
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