Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:42:14 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: mturpin@shadow.spel.com (Mark turpin) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Providence deal at computer123 Message-ID: <199807280042.UAA06964@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980727104024.1225C-100000@shadow.spel.com> from Mark turpin at "Jul 27, 98 10:47:51 am"
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Mark turpin wrote: > > > > On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Steven Plite wrote: > > Mine shipped the same way.. Bad box, cheap fan, no thermal > grease. The boards are pulls from a toshiba, probably last years model > which didn't sell well. The boards were probably pulled at the factory > and replaced with a pentium II board. Then sold at surplus. I'd bet that Tosh. 6200M is right. I've got two of these with PPro 200/256K. I don't know if Toshiba ever shipped the 6200M (defunct around Dec 1997) with 166's PPro, so I'm betting the 200's were pulled for a different reason, and the 166's are from who-knows-where. I think there were 180MHz 6200M's, though. The 6200M User's Manual mentions 180 and 200, but not 166. This is a nice mobo -- nothing wrong with it AFAIK. A while ago, Insight remaindered 6200M's for US$895 with 32MB, an ATI Mach 64 video card, and a 4.3GB Micropolis scsi drive. (The last, of course, is a P.o.S. from a deservedly bankrupt manufacturer). Only one of the two Micropolis drives I bought still works. :-( Everything else is OK. Oh yeah... with kbd, rodent, CDROM and floppy. Oh yeah... with NT (*puke*). FreeBSD 2.2.6 runs without incident on this board. (So does Linux 2.0.33 and OpenBSD 2.2, fwiw). At the price the 6200M blows the doors off the "new" sub$1000 boxes. I /think/ these boards have some kind of net-booting BIOS in the on-board NIC. Hmm, Insight is now selling off the 6200M's replacement, the 62?0M?, which has a PII and an EIDE disk, at around $1000. I think ? = 3. On the 6200M, Toshiba says to use EDO-ECC /buffered/ DIMMs. They shipped with 32MB, so you dudes might want to see if you've gotten pulled DIMMs from elsewhere. My 6200M's 32MB DIMMs have Toshiba chips on them and the number 7AF585(2) screened on the pcb. The original Toshiba CPU fan/heatsink is a nicely-finished-looking unit with a red/white label on the rotor reading "Cpu Cooler" and "HPIC", made in Taiwan. The 'sink is gold-anodized aluminum. Email me if you need any other info re 6200M. > I don't think that anything is WRONG with the boards. I would > have no problem putting this in a production environment. Agree. haven't tried SMP, though. > Mark Turpin - mturpin@spel.com > > Main Street Technology Centre > Bedford, VA Dave Bedford, PA HEY, any other Bedfords out there? -- Sancho Panza: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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