RE: [cobalt-users] OS restore: Raq 4r OS to Raq 3i ... possible?

["Matt Brown" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Then you do not have a 3i or in new series it has changed.
>My 3i is from 2000 and there it is.

I believe there was a board change near the release of the RaQ4 series, I
must have an older style RaQ3i but it is a RaQ3i without a shadow of a
doubt. :-)

> Nope, the RaQ3i has the multiplicator at 3* fixed. You can´t change it.
> I´ve talked to many List-mebers. They all have he same. The RaQ 3i can
> not detect any other CPU. (Without any tricks)

I have done the 'trick' at http://www.cobalt-update.com/

The output of my dmesg (On converted RaQ3i)is as follows:

Linux version 2.2.16C32_III (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Fri Nov 9 21:54:54 PST 2001
Ignoring bogus EBDA pointer 1715000
Detected 498021 kHz processor. <-------
Pending 0x00
Calibrating delay loop... 992.87 BogoMIPS
Memory: 257496k/262144k available (1244k kernel code, 416k reserved, 2924k
data, 64k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K  L1 D Cache: 32K
CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c

And my production RaQ4i reports:

Linux version 2.2.16C32_III (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Fri Nov 9 21:54:54 PST 2001
Ignoring bogus EBDA pointer 3FFF000
Detected 448219 kHz processor. <--------
Pending 0x00
Calibrating delay loop... 894.57 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127720k/131072k available (1244k kernel code, 416k reserved, 1628k
data, 64k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K  L1 D Cache: 32K
CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c

Regards

Matt Brown