From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 19:58:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (unknown [216.94.42.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCCF14C13; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:58:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA23576; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:59:53 -0800 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:59:53 -0800 (PST) From: To: Billy Thompson Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I've used the Asus P2L97-S (I think... the PII board that only goes up to 300) and it worked beautifully. I used both the UW port and the narrow, and had no problems, with a heavy amount of disk activity (heavily loaded web server). That was a 7880 based SCSI controller though, and I've never worked with a 7890 so far except on a Diamond Fireport 40 that gave me nothing but trouble. On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Billy Thompson wrote: > This is the system I'm thinking of getting. I've heard from on person who > had a bad experience with Asus' on-board SCSI controller. I was wondering > if any of you have had any problems with this mainboard or any of the > other parts. I do intend to use the onboard controller unless there are > problems with that. > > ASUS P2B-S w/Adaptec AIC 7890 & 3860 80MB/s UtraWide SCSI Controller > Intel Celeron 400 Mhz 66Mhz/128K > 128 MB SDRAM PC100, 16x64 > Toshiba 32X IDE CBDROM > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message