Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:21:24 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Vaughan <techie@tantivy.stanford.edu> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware compatability with Flex ATX systems Message-ID: <200203010621.WAA52249@tantivy.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <200203010550.g215owB06161@bmah.dyndns.org>
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> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Hardware compatability with Flex ATX systems > From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 21:50:58 -0800 > > > I was browsing in Fry's the other day (for the uninitiated, it's a chain > of electronic/computer stores in the SF Bay Area, with a few stores in > other locations too). They happen to carry the Shuttle SV24 and the > FICA Sabre 1815; these are both Flex ATX motherboards in physically > small cases. I was thinking that either of them might make a nice, > inexpensive workstation (add processor, memory, and disk). > > http://www.shuttleonline.com/sv24.htm > http://www.fica.com/products/systems/Databook/Sabre1815/Sabre1815.stm > > I was wondering if anyone's had any experience (good or bad) with > running FreeBSD on either of these systems? I have one of the FICA boxes, running 4-stable.. seems to work just fine.. I also have a friend who has one, and he also seems to like it. Good small box for semi-portable use. I also saw the SV24 after I bought the FICA, and was considering it as another small box, until I took a closer look, and saw a RealTek 8139 as the ethernet chipset. (read the comments in /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c) (basicly, there is nothing good to say about it, except that it is dirt cheap, which isn't a redeeming factor in this case.) Needless to say, I stopped looking at that point. I saw no reason to subject myself to RealJunk, and the associated headaches. (the FICA box has an Intel chipset.) The other thing I noticed about the SV24 was that it would be a real pain to add any expansion cards to the box, such as a real display controller, or additional ethernet, or a video capture card, all of which I have (or will soon have) in the FICA box. The chassis has a cutout for a card, but there appears to be no place in the box to put it. -- Welcome My Son, Welcome To The Machine -- Bob Vaughan | techie@{w6yx|tantivy}.stanford.edu | kc6sxc@w6yx.ampr.org | P.O. Box 19792, Stanford, Ca 94309 -- I am Me, I am only Me, And no one else is Me, What could be simpler? -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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