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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:01:03 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        unknown@riverstyx.net
Cc:        billy@idiom.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hardware Question
Message-ID:  <199903120501.WAA29377@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903111949330.18694-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> from "unknown@riverstyx.net" at "Mar 11, 1999  7:59:53 pm"

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unknown@riverstyx.net wrote...
> 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.

Umm, the Diamond Fireport 40 has an NCR/Symbios/LSI 875 on board.  The 7890
is an Adaptec chip.

They're two completely different vendors, two completely different chips
and two completely different drivers.

> 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

The P2B-S should work okay.  Justin (Gibbs, the guy who writes the Adaptec
driver) has one.  The 7890 is fully supported in FreeBSD 3.0 and 3.1.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com


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