From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 21:14:07 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 0D38716A420 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:14:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@mangohealth.org) Received: from pinnacle.akherb.com (94-37-237-24.gci.net [24.237.37.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC56443F2 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:14:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beech@mangohealth.org) Received: by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix, from userid 1007) id A0F665D94; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:14:03 -0900 (AKST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pinnacle.akherb.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=4.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 Received: from [192.168.2.131] (209-124-141-064.ip.arctic.net [209.124.141.64]) by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923295CFF; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:14:01 -0900 (AKST) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Mangohealth To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, john@cruzweb.net Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:13:40 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <90B77A9F-FFE4-4227-80B1-FBF3DDC707B6@lafn.org> <4429691E.7010200@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4429691E.7010200@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7687813.EJortGdakx"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603281213.58236.beech@mangohealth.org> Cc: Subject: Re: Motherboards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:14:07 -0000 --nextPart7687813.EJortGdakx Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 28 March 2006 07:49, 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 > > 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? I also like MSI. Several weeks ago I build a new "economy" server-desktop f= or=20 one of my clients. I started out with an Asus K-8 series and it was so bad = I=20 ended up returning the board. I went with a MSI K-8T Neo and have had zero= =20 problems with it. The server is rock solid and everything works as advertis= ed=20 with no system tweaks necessary to set it up. I originally set it up for=20 AMD64 but went back to I-386 because of lack of desktop support. I would=20 recommend them highly for low-end servers. It's happily running 6-STABLE. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@mangohealth.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart7687813.EJortGdakx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEKacW2TFLCHYGSF0RAtWuAJwPiXRyTi1D5SEVAhrLWswhzE4GEACeKjCC tkFVDS1z+v2w30k6X/8xlMA= =UuCy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7687813.EJortGdakx--