From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 11:29:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA19016 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 11:29:52 -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 LAA19010 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 11:29:49 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id KAA07861; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 10:29:03 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504041729.KAA07861@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: DELL P90 systems with FreeBSD? To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 10:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504041757.TAA13010@gvr.win.tue.nl> from "Guido van Rooij" at Apr 4, 95 07:57:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1325 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Do you know if Dell has a P90 system that works with FreeBSD? > I heart from someone that Dell Dimension XPS P90 with Plato > should work, but has some problems when you have more then > 16 MB of RAM. I do not know first hand what the XPS P90 uses for a motherboard, if infact it is the Intel Plato card there have been some problems running more than 2 simms in it. Specifically I ran into a great deal of problems when trying to run 4 32MB simms in a batch of these boards. The Plato also has a very brain dead BIOS when it comes to PCI interrupts, you can't override what the BIOS wants to do so if you want to run multiple disk controllers they will be on the same interrupt :-(. Needless to say, the boards went back and I used something else, namely ASUS and/or ECS. > I also heart something about the Omniplex. I don't follow Dells machines very close, so I have no idea about the Omniplex. > I want to have 32 mb ram, and a NCR 810 SCSI adapter. If so, > what type? Not sure what your asking here. > (I am working for a company that has it's preferred brands...pfft) :-(. Tell them it's not a PC, it is a ``U*ix'' work station :-). > -Guido -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD