From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat May 27 04:14:51 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA17834 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 27 May 1995 04:14:51 -0700 Received: from sirius.brunel.ac.uk (root@sirius.brunel.ac.uk [134.83.128.62]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA17827 for ; Sat, 27 May 1995 04:14:46 -0700 Received: from molnir.brunel.ac.uk by sirius.brunel.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <05035-0@sirius.brunel.ac.uk>; Sat, 27 May 1995 12:14:23 +0100 From: Jonathan Keith Saville Message-Id: <11267.9505271114@molnir.brunel.ac.uk> Subject: 486DX-100 on PCI motherboard questions To: hardware@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 12:14:21 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1072 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, Does anyone have experience of running 486s (DX4-100 in particular) on PCI motherboards. I'm planning to aquire the following for FreeBSD: Clone m'board with Intel 486DX4-100 and the following built in: Phoenix BIOS UNC chipset Dual EIDE channels FDD controller 2 16550 serial ports 1 enhanced parallel port 4 72 pin SIMM sockets 3 PCI slots 4 16 bit ISA slots Any comments? I've heard that Phoenix BIOSs have problems, are these insurmountable? For those who are interested, here are some spot prices from a major spares supplier here in the UK (inclusive prices): PCI m'board with 75MHz Pentium cpu .... # 457 (UK pounds) with 90MHz Pentium .... # 651 Intel Triton with 75MHz Pentium .... # 786 with 90MHz Pentium .... # 757 Dual Pentium m'board (no cpus) .... # 704 Thanks for your time, Jon -- # Jon Saville | 'May'st not tell thy dreams?' | # cs93jks@brunel.ac.uk | Keats, The Fall of Hyperion, 1819 | # jks@sasl.demon.co.uk | PGP 2.3a public key available |