From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 21 9:25: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from athena.lightningone.net (athena.lightningone.net [12.34.104.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F41E37BC01; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by athena.lightningone.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA66391; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:31:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) X-Authentication-Warning: athena.lightningone.net: john owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:31:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Essenz Consulting X-Sender: john@athena.lightningone.net To: hackers@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Intel 840 Chipset Discontinue Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was told by several of my distributors that all motherboards based off of the Intel 840 chipset are being discontinued. That means the Supermicro PIIDM3 and PIIIDME, and any other 840 board. Supermicro has two new boards, 370DL3 and 370DLE. Identical in specs to the 840 boards, but using some kind of "ServerWork LE" chipset. However, I have also been hearing bad news about these boards as well. Has anyone worked with these boards? Supermicro SAYS that they work fine under Linux and Solaris. However, one of my distributors says thay they are extremely touchy when it comes to memory. Only Registered PC133 ECC memory will work. If someone at freebsd.org wants to seriously test these boards, let me know, and I'll donate one. Without the 840 boards, server configs are now back to the 440GX days! -john v.e. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message