From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 28 14:26:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA27477 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:26:39 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA27469 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:26:36 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA02581; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:26:04 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508282126.OAA02581@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: S.O.S -2.1Stable and ASUSP54TP4 To: kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Kim Culhan" at Aug 28, 95 05:01:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1173 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Rashid Karimov. wrote: > > > After having a lot of problems with different > > motherboards under FreeBSD I've switched to the > > "editor's choice" - ASUS P54TP4 mb.,which was > > recommended here by Jordan :) > > Few problems went away ( like random reboots and > > stuff), but oneremains consistent: > > > > the freaking system loks each and every day and > > I think this is because of .... something related > > to HD activity/driver/adapter/whatever. > > > > The system is P90,Adaptec 2940 PCI _SCSI adapter, > > SMC EtherPower. > > I just setup an ASUS P55TP4XE with a 2940 and an EtherPower and no problem. > > Is a P54 and earlier version? Well, sorta, sorta not. The P54 was designed before socket 7 was speced, it uses socket 5 (as do current production P55's). Both are still current production models, both are selling in very high volumes. They came out within 4 weeks of each other as far as initial product goes, so you can't really say about ``earlier''. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD