Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:50:57 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Motherboard and CPU Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970311135056.0114309c@mixcom.com>
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At 01:56 PM 3/10/97 +0000, 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?). > > 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? > > 2) What's the media slot buy me? I'm leary of proprietary slots, yes > I know it can be used as a regular PCI slot. ASUS has "multi" cards for that slot, like a SCSI controller combined with sound card. The base SCSI part is Adaptec. You may wish to check out the T2P4S, which has the HX chipset, 6 SIMM slots, and built in SCSI support with both a 50 and 68 pin connector (time to upgrade the 1542 :). > Lastly, AMD, Cyrix or Intel. I can get a AMD 5K86-P133 for $89. Man, >that's tempting. I prefer Intel, but know that AMD's processors work just fine with FreeBSD. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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