From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 11:55:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04830 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:55:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA04822 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from P60 by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id NAA18669; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:52:45 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970311135056.0114309c@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:50:57 -0600 To: "Paul T. Root" From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: New Motherboard and CPU Cc: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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