1. I hear rumours of a PC264 motherboard soon. Lovely.
It will only support NT and Linux. No SRM. Horrible.
2. I want to configure a 4-cpu ES40 with 2Gb mem and > 6 PCI slots.
The PCI requirement means I need a Model 2 machine.
According to the SOC, the smallest Model 2 I can buy comes with
a 1Gb memory set. According to the techinfo on DEQ's website,
in order to fully utilise memory interleaving, I need 4 sets all the same
size, which means I have to buy twice as much memory as I need.
The alternative is to buy a Model 1 with 0.5Gb mem, plus an
upgrade to Model 2 kit and throw away the redundant Model 1 bits,
and a further 3 x 0.5Gb mem sets. This does the trick PCI and
memorywise, but how silly to have to throw stuff away on day one.
How about a bit more flexibility in the initial memory configurations
of these machines. I thought this sort of thing was Compaq's forte...
Cheers,
Terry.
Terry Horsnell (tsh_at_mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk)
Computer Manager
Medical Research Council
Lab of Molecular Biology
Hills Road
CAMBRIDGE CB2 2QH
U.K.
+44 (0)1223 248011
Received on Fri Jun 04 1999 - 16:27:13 NZST