From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 17:23:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA00231 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:23:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elink.scls.lib.wi.us (elink.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA29716 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609210023.RAA29716@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: from [198.150.47.150] (fafnir.scls.lib.wi.us) by elink.scls.lib.wi.us with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA032595241; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:20:41 -0500 Subject: motherboard advice sought Date: Fri, 20 Sep 96 19:27:25 -0500 X-Sender: admin@mail.scls.lib.wi.us X-Mailer: Claris Emailer 1.1 From: Greg Barniskis To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am getting a large chunk-o-change through a library technology grant to build a supercharged FreeBSD box. I'm looking for advice on motherboard manufacturers/chipsets to seek/shun. My wish is for a Pentium 200 or better (meaning Pro, or dual-processor, or both) with 512k or 1MB cache. I could make do with 6 SIMM slots but seek 8. I've seen a listing for a Tyan Tomcat II P5 Dual board w/ AWARD PnP BIOS for $1060 (with one P-200 in it). It has the 512k and the 8 slots I want at a price that I can live with. Oddly, I see few other boards advertised that have what I want (but I didn't look that hard). If it makes a difference (and I expect it may) I hope to use the as-yet-undetermined motherboard with a PCI Ultrawide SCSI card (Adaptec), several Seagate 9GB Ultrawide drives, an external DDS2 DAT (model undetermined) and a PCI 10/100TX ethernet card (with sundry other components needed to make a whole system). TIA for any information you can give, ----------------------------------------------------- Greg Barniskis gregb@scls.lib.wi.us Network Administrator (608) 266-6394 Library Interchange NetworK (LINK) fax: 266-6068 South Central Library System (SCLS) Madison, WI