mp.os.os2.misc:2524   
   From: Victor Bien    
      
   Dariusz Piatkowski wrote:   
   > Alright...the time has come to upgrade the ol' Betsy...LOL...looking at AMD    
   > based hardware...did some reading around comparing the Athlon 2 X4 CPUs to   
   the    
   > Phenom 2 X4 ones and for the most part it appears the L3 cache does make   
   enough    
   > of a difference to get you some 'future' growing room.   
   >    
   > So...the quest is on: what is the most compatible mb for the Phenom CPUs?   
   >    
   > I had a look at the popular on-line hardware list...a few items show   
   up...but    
   > very little info in terms of descriptions, etc...so I'm posing this question   
   to    
   > the group, along with the proposed configuration of the system, having taken    
   > into account things such as video drivers, NIC, etc.   
   >    
   > My current system is an Asus A7N8X based, AMD Barton core, 2 Gig RAM, ATI   
   X800    
   > AGP card using SNAP (no problems, happy with it), 3COM NIC.   
   >    
   > The proposed new hardware is as follows:   
   >    
   > CPU: AMD Phenom 2   
   > MB: ???   
   > VIDEO: ATI X850 PCI-e (already have this)   
   > HD: WD VelociRaptor (already have this), SATA2 drive   
   > NIC: 3COM Fast EtherLink XL (already have this, in case on-board NIC can't   
   be    
   > worked)   
   > RAM: 4Gig (I understand less may be actually visible/available to OS2)   
   > PORTS: need SERIAL for UPS connectivity, then normal USB   
   > SLOTS: need at least a couple of PCI slots   
   > AUDIO: currently using UniAudio driver, would like to continue to use it   
      
      A few months back I successfully migrated my ver 4.52 to run on a Gigabyte   
   GS-MA74GM-S2 mb which works with an AMD Athlon X2 socket AM3 CPU.  I would not   
   have a clue whether I am working all the cores.  I have no idea about the   
   driver(s) for multi-core operation others have mentioned in this thread.  The   
   performance presently is noticeably better than the previous ASUS K8VSE mb,   
   Sempron 3000+.   
      
     I could still use my Sound Blaster Live 5.1 card and InitIO scsi adapter (to   
   operate my HP Scanjet 5P scanner).  I now run SATA HDs, got a driver to   
   operate the on-board NIC and have the USB system working and so use USB   
   keyboard and mouse and can connect USB sticks and HDs with USB adapters - all   
   quite gratifying but...  Since MBs with AGP sockets are no longer available I   
   had to phase out my AGP video card and use the on-board video.  With Snap   
   having closed I thought I had to settle with using the GRAD video with its   
   slow screen redraw.   
      
      So I was most interested in the mention above of an ATI PCI-e card with the   
   implied statement my Snap driver can drive it!  Is that right?   
      
      
      I suffered a terrible disk crash a couple of months back and found my   
   backup scheme incomplete so I lost a lot of data.  I am therefore wondering   
   about setting up a RAID type 1 hard disk setup.  Will OS/2 work with say an   
   Adaptec 1220SA RAID card?   
      
      I have done some sussing around including eCom station and OS/2 Warp   
   Compatible hardware list but haven't been able to find any relevant info.    
   What is the state of play with RAID?   
      
   Victor Bien   
      
   >    
   > The software is as follows:   
   >    
   > OS: Warp4 CP2, FP#6   
   > Kernel: 14.105, UNI   
   >    
   > I believe I'm looking at a bunch of changes to the OS in order to support   
   the    
   > multi-core CPUs like Phenom...no idea though specifically what...is it just   
   the    
   > kernel that needs to be changed, or is there more?   
   >    
   > Any hints/suggestions are always appreciated!   
      
      
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