As it happens they are B0 and C0 steppings! But I have another old PIII-450
on its way courtesy of eBay so I expect I could find a matching pair. SMP
seems fine - I have just reinstalled 3.3 from scratch in order to experiment
with some IT8212 drivers that need to be recompiled for SMP support.
Thanks for the heads-up on the steppings tho'.
NK.
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Matt Bottrell
Sent: 08 March 2005 07:08
To: CentOS discussion and information list
Subject: Re: [Centos] Installing a second processor
Is the stepping the same for this CPU?
Without the same stepping you may run into some bizzare SMP problems. It's
always prudent to buy dual processors at the same time (to get the same
stepping).
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 02:09:23 +0100 (CET), Maciej ?enczykowski <maze@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> it's just a matter of running yum install kernel-smp if I'm not
> mistaken and possibly fixing the grub/lilo configuration files.
>
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply - is the smp install a simple yum command or a
> > reinstall off the original CD's - this is not something I have done
> > before.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Maciej ?enczykowski
> > Sent: 02 March 2005 00:22
> > To: CentOS discussion and information list
> > Subject: Re: [Centos] Installing a second processor
> >
> >
> > you should be able to drop it in just fine, but you'll need to
> > install an smp kernel in order to actually make use of the second
> > processor (unless your kernel is already smp, which is unlikely).
> > just install the same kernel you now have but with smp in the rpm
> > package name and use that as the lilo/grub default (test first of
> > course) kernel.
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> >
> > > I have Centos-3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 1300 (PIII-450) - it's
> > > a dual processor board but with a single processor currently
> > > fitted. I have just purchased a second PIII-450 processor on eBay
> > > (for ?10!!) - can I just drop it in the system or do I need to
> > > reinstall the OS or reconfigure anything software-wise?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > NK
> > >
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