From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 17 18:00:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA05389 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 18:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kryten.nina.com (dyn051-gnv.51.fdt.net [205.229.51.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA05378 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 18:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (frankd@localhost) by Kryten.nina.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA21832; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 20:57:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Kryten.nina.com: frankd owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 20:57:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.com To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Comments wanted on new system In-Reply-To: <199607180026.RAA07661@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > I would highly recommend _not_ getting this board, it uses the Orion > chipset, which is older and known to have certain bugs. ASUS is now > in production with the PCI/I-P6NP5 board based on the newer Natoma > chipset, the boards are still on allocation, but I am not having much > problem getting them. > What kind of problems exist in the Orion chipset? > You might want to consider the Micropolis MC4421, new on the market, but > at an attractive price/performance point for 2G drives (street price should > be less than $550.) I have heard a lot of horror stories about Micropolis drives. Is this a better unit than previous drives? > -- > Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com > Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD > Frank -- Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep in a cardboard box while a draft dodger sleeps in the White House.