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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
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In-Reply-To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.atinc.com>
       "Re: ASUS PCI 486SP3G motherboards - any good?" (Nov  9,  6:37am)
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} > I'm contemplating replacing my current 486 VL motherboard with either a
} > 486 or Pentium based PCI board.
} > 
} > I've heard about the ASUS 486SP3G 486 PCI board - does anyone have any
} > experience running these under FreeBSD?  How about with an AMD
} > 486DX4-100 CPU?
} 
} 	ASUS 486SP3G 486 PCI board, i have one with 486dx4-66.  runs 
} beautifully.  ncr scsi builtin at irq9.   3 pci slots, 2 with irqs 10 and 
} 11, pci inta# only.  mine did not support write-back cache until a dirty 
} cache line tag sram chip was added.  the addition of that chip resulted 
} in a 10% speed increase.  (make world times: 30kSec --> 27kSec).
} 
} 	excellent board.  i am very happy with mine.
} 

The chip socket was empty?

How does the scsi controller stack up against others?

Any good mail-order sources?


Thanks

Richard