Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:17:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: spork@super-g.com (S) Cc: petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: INN history file and disk I/O Message-ID: <199609181617.LAA09163@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.92.960918092259.13749C-100000@super-g.inch.com> from "S" at Sep 18, 96 09:24:37 am
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> Hello, > > We'll be building a new news server here rather soon, and I was wondering > if anyone in on this discussion has any preferences in motherboards and > dealers... Our usual supplier is having some trouble coming up with a > recommendation on a RAM-packed motherboard... > > Thanks, > > Charles Contact: Rod Grimes, Accurate Automation Company. <sales@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>. You want a Triton-II based board. Rod sells at least two decent boards. Rod is god on any motherboard issues, listen to what he has to say. I have had some trouble stuffing boards with RAM too, it seems that contemporary RAM is not up to the task :-( This is not necessarily an "easy" thing to do. Curt found an expensive source for 64MB SIMM modules that are working just fine in one of Rod's EISA boards. Let me see.. (Oh damn it, Netcrap just expired... time to use a real Web browser) While I am trying to play Guess the MB with ASUS's slow Web site, I will refer to one board as "ISA" and the other as "EISA".. Neither the ISA nor the EISA board would accept 36-chip 64MB SIMM modules we tried, and we had some custom 12-chip 64MB SIMM modules manufactured that did not work either. The machine regularly freaked on a daily basis. Finding 64MB SIMM modules with <= 24 chips (as recommended by the ASUS manual) has been virtually impossible. The EISA board has accepted 4 very expensive SIMM modules and works fine. We have not tried them in the ISA board but will shortly. I believe that they are 36-chip modules but they do work. The EISA board rejected various combinations of 32MB parity SIMM modules once more than 4 were installed. It accepted a specific type of 32MB EDO modules when 6 were installed (192MB) but not 8 of them. Anyways... the EISA board is: ASUS P/E-P55T2P4D which has 8 SIMM slots and the ISA board is: ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 which has 4 SIMM slots. ... JG
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