From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun May 7 15:35:11 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA04759 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 7 May 1995 15:35:11 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA04748 for ; Sun, 7 May 1995 15:35:02 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA15187; Sun, 7 May 1995 15:34:42 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505072234.PAA15187@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Intel 'ZAPPA' motherboard -details? To: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk (Karl Strickland) Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 15:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505072230.XAA01274@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> from "Karl Strickland" at May 7, 95 11:30:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1104 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Just seen this advertised, but with few details. The ad says it uses > the triton chipset, does anyone have more info? It uses the Triton chip set, it has only 3 PCI slots, I have a vendor who is bringing the product in. Once he gets it I will take a closer look at the board. Given that it has the AMI winbios on it, I would guess it is a bad board for most Unix systems as you'll run into the interrupt sharing problems that the Intel Plato has. > Few questions: > Is a triton based board currently the best to buy? It is the highest performance in OEM type motherboards, it does have the miss feature of lacking parity support for main memory. > > I understand triton boards give better performance using > pipelined burst SRAM for the cache, and EDO SIMMS. (right?) It is better in performance without these options too. > Can you mix standard fast page SIMMS & EDO simms on the same > motherboard? Not to my knowledge. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD