From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun May 12 22:03:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA16885 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 12 May 1996 22:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw1.att.com (gw1.att.com [192.20.239.133]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA16878 for ; Sun, 12 May 1996 22:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aloft.UUCP by ig1.att.att.com id AA24755; Mon, 13 May 96 00:59:54 EDT From: gtc@aloft.att.com (gary.corcoran) To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, smatthew@ccnet.com Received: from aloft (aloft.cnet.att.com) by aluxpo (4.1/DCS-aluxpo-M4.3) id AA09569; Mon, 13 May 96 01:02:33 EDT Received: from stargazer (stargazer.cnet.att.com) by aloft (4.1/DCS-aloft-M5.1) id AA16405; Mon, 13 May 96 01:02:40 EDT Received: by stargazer (4.1/DCS-aloft_client-S2.1) id AA16795; Mon, 13 May 96 01:02:38 EDT Date: Mon, 13 May 96 01:02:38 EDT Original-From: aluxpo!aloft!gtc (gary.corcoran) Message-Id: <9605130502.AA16795@stargazer> Original-To: FreeBSD.ORG!freebsd-hardware, ccnet.com!smatthew Subject: Re: Motherboards Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Scott, If you don't mind paying a little more to get a good quality motherboard, look at what AMI (American Megatrends Inc.) has to offer. Their motherboards are made in America, are good quality, and they support them. And yes, they are the same folks that bring you the AMI BIOS used by so many motherboard makers. I have two AMI motherboards, and have never had a hardware problem (e.g a board that wouldn't work) with them. My Pentium motherboard (which runs FreeBSD) is an AMI Titan II EISA/PCI motherboard. It supports dual Pentiums, though I only have one installed. By now, however, this board is "old" (a year or so...) ;-} :-( and since it has many slots (6 EISA + 4 PCI with none overlapped) you need a special "server" 12-slot case to hold it. However, I understand that they now have newer boards with 4 EISA or ISA + 4 PCI slots that fit in a standard case and feature the newer faster Pentiums. So you might want to check out exactly what AMI now offers... Gary