From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 12 00:09:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA00973 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:09:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA00968; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:09:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by quagmire.ki.net (8.8.2/8.7.5) with SMTP id DAA10379; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 03:08:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 03:08:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Steve Passe cc: smp@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GigaByte GA-586DX-512 Motherboard In-Reply-To: <199611120720.AAA26401@clem.systemsix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Steve Passe wrote: > Hi, > > > I asked my supplier for a quote on the GigaByte GA-586DX-512 > > Motherboard, and got the following response: > > > > ---- > > I am still searching for the GigaByte GA-586DX-512 Motherboard. > > Apparantly they have had a great deal of problems with this board and are not > > carrying it anymore. I still might find one but would you consider getting > > something more reliable. eg. Asus. Let me know what you need ie: PCI/ISA/EISA > > and tomarrow I can find prices for you. > > ---- > > > > Can anyone comment on this? I've always had good dealing with > > the ASUS brand of motherboards, but is there an equivalent ASUS motherboard > > that ppl would recommend? > > > > I'm wondering if their "great deal of problems" might have been > > with earlier models, and they just said to hell with carrying it altogether? > > or they just want to sell you what they have experience with (or can make > more money on). > > This is the board that I pound on many hours a day, and have never had a lick > of trouble with it. It supports the MP spec properly (and there's a LOT >of room in that spec to do stupid things). Never seen a sigfault that "smells" > of the flaky memory sub-system variety. I do see occasional faults, but we > know the current SMP kernel is not "doing the good thing" in all respects >yet. From my limited experience of one board I would not hesitate to recommend >it. Try www.atipa.com, they could probably have one to you by end of the week. > Okay...sound arguments :) How does this sound: GigaByte GA-586DX-512 Intel Pentium 133 (is 133 that much better then 120 to warrant extra cost?) 64Meg of RAM (EDO?) How about Hard Drive? atipa doesn't list Seagates, that I can find, and recent experiencees with Quantum are steering me clear of them. Essentially, I'm looking at setting up a server that I can play with SMP on, but if I get a crash/core, I can confidently send in a bug report on without being worried its a hardware problem :) Thanks... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org