From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 17:21:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB53E16A401 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:21:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cruzweb@gmail.com) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.192.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4266944904 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:49:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cruzweb@gmail.com) Received: from [192.168.42.11] (c-68-61-214-252.hsd1.mi.comcast.net[68.61.214.252]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20060328164931m13005o1jue>; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:49:32 +0000 Message-ID: <4429691E.7010200@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:49:34 -0500 From: John Cruz Organization: Cruz Web Development User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Hardie References: <90B77A9F-FFE4-4227-80B1-FBF3DDC707B6@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <90B77A9F-FFE4-4227-80B1-FBF3DDC707B6@lafn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Motherboards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: john@cruzweb.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:21:05 -0000 I have to recommend MSI. I haven't run BSD on one yet but they have always given me great performance and reliability over time. They're not the cheapest, but I'd still rather have a low-end MSI board then the most expensive Abit or PC Chips board Doug Hardie wrote: > I have a number of servers that are reaching end of life. They are > over 7 years old and I can no longer find IDE drives that work with > the slower controllers they have. These are all towers and use ASUS > motherboards. Those were quite cheap at the time and the boards have > worked very well over the years. However, I am now hearing rumers > that ASUS motherboards are no longer the best quality and probably > should be avoided. Don't need much on the machines, but do have to > have 2 NICs and a SCSI controller on each. What are good, rock solid, > motherboards with FreeBSD 6.0? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >