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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.


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Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator
jeff@mixcom.net

MIX Communications
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