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Subject: Re: motherboards with parity?
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> The Triton Chipset has much better performance, but as you noted,
> doesn't suport partity. 
> 
> The problem is, that other pentium chipsets not only have worse
> performance, but also worse PCI support. You can't bet you can run
> more than one SCSI card in a Neptun board.

Are you sure about what you say of the Neptune boards?

I'm planning to buy an ASUS PCI/I-P54NP4D motherboard (dual Pentium)
and, initially, will run Solaris 2.4 for Intel on it. However, I may
run FreeBSD in the future, when it supports SMP.

Anyhow, that motherboard uses the Neptune chipset, and I will put at
least a couple of PCI cards in it (SCSI and Ethernet).

Also, will that mainboard be supported by FreeBSD/SMP?