Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:16:44 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: john@cruzweb.net Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Motherboards Message-ID: <44298B9C.7000404@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4429691E.7010200@gmail.com> References: <90B77A9F-FFE4-4227-80B1-FBF3DDC707B6@lafn.org> <4429691E.7010200@gmail.com>
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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? > > John Cruz wrote: > 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 Interesting. I've not used a great many MSI boards, that's "Micro-Star International", but I'm sitting on one ATM. It "feels" cheap, but it runs quite well enough, considering it's FAMP devel/app server, LAN gateway/DNS, FTP server, and my desktop. I've pretty much given up on SOYO for reasons I can't even really remember ... I *think* it had to do with their phone support and return policy; I've several dead older SOYO boards in some drawer around here, a couple of which were DOA at the time, IIRC. OP: 2 NICS no issue here on older MSI board; also, this is the third "motherboard" thread this month (not complaining, but you can find more advice in the archives, perhaps.) Kevin Kinsey -- The days are all empty and the nights are unreal.
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