From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 11:40:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03312 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:40:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03260 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:40:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA02652; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:40:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:40:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Paul T. Root" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Motherboard and CPU In-Reply-To: <199703101356.NAA17544@horton.iaces.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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