I don't think any current chip sets allow more than two PII chips yet in
addition to the problems already mentioned bellow.
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| From: Erik Corry <erik@arbat.com>
| To: System Email <sysmail@nebula.com>
| Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
| Subject: Re: PentiumII's.
| Date: Tuesday, July 29, 1997 11:27 PM
|
| > How does it comapre to a PPRO 200? :)
|
| Unlike the PPRO it can't handle more than 512MB. Not that
| much of a problem as Linux-86 can only handle slightly less
| than 1GB according to a recent thread here. See
| <http://www.heise.de/ct/art_ab97/9708020/> if you understand
| German. The problem is the level 2 cache, which corrupts
| data for machines with more than 512MB. If you switch off
| the 2nd level cache it works, but is dog slow. Just switching
| off the 2nd level cache above 512MB doesn't work, as it then
| switches off the 1st level cache, too, for that area.
|
| It's pretty much impossible to find a 586 chipset that can
| cache more than 512MB (see another article in the paper
| version of the same magazine, c't 8/97), so if you need more
| you need either a PPro or a RISC processor.
|
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| Erik Corry erik@arbat.com http://inet.uni-c.dk/~ehcorry/