SMP and dual tulip: Solution!

[Brian Macy]

"Argentium G. Tiger" wrote:
> 
> At 03:41 PM 11/09/1999 -0800, Brian Macy <bmacy@sunshinecomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> >Note that this is likely a bad "solution". Your memory bandwidth is
> >likely halved... don't know why, it just happens.
> 
> Brian, can you elaborate on this?  Your comment caught me a bit off guard.

For some strange reason (probably BIOS) if you switch the ABIT BP6 to
MPS 1.4 you will get half the memory bandwidth as shown by hdparm.
Switching back to 1.1 puts it back to normal.

Brian Macy