From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jan 18 08:25:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA17039 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 08:25:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (in-ruhr.ruhr.de [193.100.176.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA17033 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 08:25:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from robkaos.ruhr.de (admin@localhost) by mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with UUCP id QAA06474 for freebsd.org!freebsd-hardware; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 16:47:25 +0100 (MET) Received: by robkaos.ruhr.de (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.1) id ; Sat, 18 Jan 97 16:45 MET Message-Id: From: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) Subject: Which PPro board? To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 16:45:26 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In the next few weeks I will buy a new motherboard. At the moment I have a 486DX50 which is somewhat slow. Because I probably will do lots of number crunching I think that an PPro-200 is the right choice. Another reason is good 'worldstone' bench :-) But what motherboard should I buy? Asus? Tyan? Does anyone know something about Chaintech? Is it correct that on non-ASUS boards I need a SCSI host adapter with BIOS if I want to boot from the SCSI drive? I ask this because the HA of my choice is some kind of NCR adapter. and most of these beasts you can buy in a usual PC shop are without BIOS. Is there anything special to note concerning the CPU? It may be that I will use the CPU in a Dual-PPro board later. Are there CPUs which are not able to smp? The CPU is a PPro 200 (256k). TIA Robert