From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 17:52:37 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA28916 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 17:52:37 -0700 Received: from kaiwan.kaiwan.com (kaiwan.kaiwan.com [198.178.203.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA28906 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 17:52:36 -0700 Received: from exit.com (uucp@localhost) by kaiwan.kaiwan.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id RAA15370 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 17:52:31 -0700 *** KAIWAN Internet Access *** Received: (from frank@localhost) by exit.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id RAA22520 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 17:36:39 -0700 From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <199507250036.RAA22520@exit.com> Subject: FreeBSD versus no-parity-support motherboards. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 17:36:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME5a] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 751 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I've been running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 for some time on a 486 DX/33 ISA system. The time has come to upgrade. I've been checking out motherboards, and the most performant for the money seem to be the Triton-based motherboards (ASUS, SuperMicro, et al). The one thing that makes me a tad nervous is the lack of parity support in the Triton chipset. So, the question: Is anyone out there running FreeBSD (1.1, 2.0, 2.0.5, etc) on one of these motherboards? If so, have you seen any significant problems with undetected memory errors? My only other option seems to be to go with the Neptune chipset, but it doesn't support some of the sexier technology (Burst SRAM, etc). Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com