From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 19:53:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA09948 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 19:53:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA09941 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 19:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oscar.cc.gatech.edu (cau@oscar.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.107.12]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA22719; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:53:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from cau@localhost) by oscar.cc.gatech.edu (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA20644; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:53:39 -0400 (EDT) From: cau@cc.gatech.edu (Carlos Ugarte) Message-Id: <199607300253.WAA20644@oscar.cc.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: 5x86 To: alk@think.com (Tony Kimball) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:53:39 -0400 (EDT) Cc: ptroot@uswest.com, questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607291802.NAA25979@compound.Think.COM> from "Tony Kimball" at Jul 29, 96 01:02:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Quoth Paul T. Root on Mon, 29 July: > Do NOT > buy a UMC 5x86 MoBo if you have a bus-mastering SCSI controller > (e.g. 1542CF). ASUS makes some good ones. Guess this is my cue. Beware of some of the ASUS boards too. Specifically, I purchased an ASUS PVI-486SP3 to work with the Cyrix 586-120GP; while the combo works, it also has the same problems with busmastering controllers (namely, random reboots here and there). Carlos -- Carlos A. Ugarte cau@cc.gatech.edu Author of PageMage, a virtual desktop util for OS/2 http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/cau/ If you understand what you're doing, you are not learning anything