From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 16 21:48:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585C015233 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:48:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A.Reilly@lake.com.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA23883 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:48:28 +1100 (EDT) X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-From: A.Reilly@lake.com.au X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-To: X-BPC-Relay-Sender-Host: m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20] X-BPC-Relay-Info: Message delivered directly. Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-49-170.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.49.170]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id QAA08232 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:48:27 +1100 (EDT) Received: (qmail 40199 invoked from network); 17 Nov 1999 05:48:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO gurney.reilly.home) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Nov 1999 05:48:27 -0000 From: Andrew Reilly Organization: Lake DSP To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-S and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:44:32 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers), dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199911170535.VAA20264@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99111716482700.39935@gurney.reilly.home> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 08:02:54PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > we don't use the P2B-DS unless someone > > > really insists on it, we'd rather put an NCR 53C875 in it than sell > > > them the -DS. > > > > Why? Price difference? Performance reasons? Reliability > Because :-) Yes. Yes. Yes. > > > experience? > > And defanitly yes. Fair enough. I didn't realise that an extra-card '875 would be cheaper than the on-board Adaptec. I'm onto my second built-in-Adaptec motherboard (first iwill, now gigabyte), and they've both worked like champs. I remember them being less expensive than the equivelant board+Adaptec card, but probably didn't compare them to the '875 for price. Having more spare PCI slots is a factor too. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message