From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 24 21:22:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id VAA01367 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:22:33 -0800 Received: from goof.com (root@goof.com [198.82.204.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA01353 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:22:28 -0800 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id AAA00482 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 00:22:24 -0500 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199501250522.AAA00482@goof.com> Subject: Motherboards To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 00:22:23 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1279 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk With all the recent discussion about the faulty, unreliable motherboard I was recently unfortunate to purchase, I've been wondering what a really good motherboard to use with FreeBSD is. I'll be returning this "gem" of a motherboard as soon as I get one in that works really well. My options are as follows: a straight VLB motherboard that has 8 SIMM slots, and can handle 4 4M SIMMs and 4 1M SIMMs; a PCI motherboard that's got some VLB slots, that can handle 30 pin SIMMs and 72 pin SIMMs, preferably lots of both; or a PCI motherboard that has no VLB slots, but has an onboard scsi that will work well with FreeBSD and can handle some 30 pin SIMMs. As far as what I want the board to be like goes, I'd just like one that has a fast cache, can support of to 1M of cache, but comes with either 256K or 512K, has a BIOS that will work well with FreeBSD, and is pretty reliable and so forth, so as not to act flakey under FreeBSD (where my machine spends 99.9% of its time). Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, I appreciate it greatly! -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -- System/Network Administration, User Support, Software Devel. Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research Work Related: mmead@ctr.vt.edu | All Other: mmead@goof.com WWW: http://www.goof.com:/~mmead