Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone out there has successfully got BeOS to use all four cores of an Intel processor on any specific motherboards. I found a great article here:
on how to get BeOS to run on a DFI Infinity P965-S motherboard, but these MB’s are hard to find. The author suggest using the DFI P35-T2L or P35-T2RL which are much easier to find, but said he’s not sure if they are compatible or not. I could buy MB’s, but that would get expensive very fast if they don’t work. The main issue is if the MB’s BIOS settings has specifically “MPS” (multi processor support) as a choice in the menu. Newer boards use a newer mlti-processor setup that BeOS doesn’t support. I mainly want to be able to turn the four cores on and off. Full-native support is very unlikely, but not a problem because supported cards can be added (ethernet, sound, video, etc.) Thanks for any help.
Edit: I forgot to mention that Haiku would probably work on a 4-core intel processor, but since we are using BeOS with Tunetracker as our FM radio station’s automation computer, we want to upgrade the computer itself and re-install the Tunetracker version we purchased. The version we have won’t work under Haiku.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I had forgotten to mention in my original post that we are trying to upgrade our FM radio station’s automation computer which presently runs BeOS 5 with Tunetracker, but the version of Tunetracker we bought won’t run under Haiku. A quad intel processor would significantly improve the processing time of generating daily playlists, plus, after finding a motherboard/quad-cpu that works, I’d like to put together a second identical computer for personal use and partition it to run BeOS and Haiku.
[quote=kp3ft]Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I had forgotten to mention in my original post that we are trying to upgrade our FM radio station’s automation computer which presently runs BeOS 5 with Tunetracker, but the version of Tunetracker we bought won’t run under Haiku. A quad intel processor would significantly improve the processing time of generating daily playlists, plus, after finding a motherboard/quad-cpu that works, I’d like to put together a second identical computer for personal use and partition it to run BeOS and Haiku.[/quote]
Maybe you should contact TuneTracker themselves, it’s time to move on to Haiku, really.
[quote=DioGen]
Maybe you should contact TuneTracker themselves, it’s time to move on to Haiku, really.[/quote]
Diogen stand correct, TuneTracker has to deploy their software to haiku or provide a “Zeta OS” version but honestly Haiku is far a head than Zeta currently, well i do believe that.
Hi DioGen,
Thanks for your reply. Tunetracker already has a version working for Haiku; from what I understand they just need to finish up a couple details. It’s an amazing system and works flawlessly since went on the air eight years ago. I want to upgrade to the Hailu version in a couple years.
At this point, we are using up our resources to rebuild the radio transmission system (tower, base, antenna, etc.) because it was destroyed by a runaway vehicle. We’re non-profit and operated by volunteers, so frugality is necessary. While I run Haiku for personal use, I also like BeOS because it’s a part of history, and I want to see the maximum hardware it will run on.
I appreciate your problem, but we have a contingent here who weren’t even born when BeOS first came out, and not many of the rest us run BeOS at all any more, except maybe in a VM which we fire up once a month out of nostalgia. It just is not something on which we are building up expertise. Is there a Tunetracker forum you can ask?