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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:40:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New Motherboard and CPU
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970311113834.2548M-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199703101356.NAA17544@horton.iaces.com>

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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Paul T. Root wrote:

> 	ASUS is the recommended (more or less) MB of FreeBSD. But I'm leaning
> toward the Gigabyte 586HX (4PCI/4ISA and 6 Simm slots). The advantage the
> ASUS P55T2P4 has is NCR SCSI bios and the mediaslot(maybe?).

The mediabus is useful if you buy the ASUS-modified video, audio, or SCSI
cards.  Otherwise it's another proprietary bus that doesn't eat a
slot.  I have the T2P4 now.

> 	1) I currently use a 1542B with EZ-SCSI software on Windows 95. I
> 	   need to be able to backup Windows as well as FreeBSD. I have a
> 	   HP 4mm drive, which works great. Does the SC200 (Symbios/NCR 810)
> 	   have and windows software?

I would certainly hope so :)  

> 	Lastly, AMD, Cyrix or Intel. I can get a AMD 5K86-P133 for $89. Man,
> that's tempting. 

Whatever is best for you, I think the MB can take any of them.

Have you found the ASUS web pages yet?  There is some good info there.

http://www.asus.com/

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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