From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 12 15:35: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCDB14CE1 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:35:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from NOMAD (kenn2012.bossig.com [208.26.242.12]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA28165; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:33:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <001c01beccb6$9c41ba60$0100fea9@NOMAD> From: "Kent Stewart" To: "Robert J. Adams" , "Rick Hamell" , "Booth, Christopher" Cc: "'freebsd'" References: <000501beccac$048fd990$0100fea9@NOMAD> <0d1b01beccae$27258a20$3102fbd1@siscom.net> Subject: Re: Motherboard/CPU Query Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:33:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2918.2701 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2918.2701 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert J. Adams To: Kent Stewart ; Rick Hamell ; Booth, Christopher Cc: 'freebsd' Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Motherboard/CPU Query > Guys, > > We've been using the Asus P2B-L (onboard Intel PRO/100 Ethernet) pretty much > exclusively. We've also used the version of the board that has onboard > Adaptec 2940U2W in addition to the PRO/100. We have never had a problem with > either board. That is the MB that I was thinking of when I made my comment about the SCSI. I just switched to the Intel Pro 10/100 from 3Com and I really don't have any experience except that I have two cards in service. Adding cache and bios'es for either device to a MB seems like a conflict of interest on one side or the other. In my case, I would have been locked into a ultra wide and not have an easy choice of adding a U2W to my system. The upgrade would have been effectively double the cost because I still had the old one on-board, which I couldn't sell to someone, and the new higher performance SCSI card, which was added to gain performance. You will have to make that decision when UW160 hits the street. Kent > > -j > > --- > Robert J. Adams radams@siscom.net http://www.siscom.net > Looking to outsource news? http://www.newshosting.com > SISCOM Network Administration - President, SISCOM Inc. > Phone: 937-222-8150 FAX: 937-222-8153 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kent Stewart > To: Rick Hamell ; Booth, Christopher > > Cc: 'freebsd' > Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 5:17 PM > Subject: Re: Motherboard/CPU Query > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Rick Hamell > > To: Booth, Christopher > > Cc: 'freebsd' > > Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 1:45 PM > > Subject: Re: Motherboard/CPU Query > > > > > > > > > > > Is anyone out there running FreeBSD with an Alton 748 PII/III > > SVGA/Sound/56k > > > > modem (i.e., the video, sound, and modem cards are built in) > motherboard > > and > > > > an Intel Celeron 333a CPU? > > > > > > > > If so, have you any caveats? > > > > > > Do not under any circumstances ever, ever, ever run a motherboard > > > with everything built in. You have cheap hardware that is barely > supported > > > by the manufacturers even under Windwos, poor (usually) quality control, > > > and it's hard to upgrade single pieces. Especially if one thing goes > bad. > > > > I sometimes think that is also true of on-board SCSI but there are times > > when an on-board scsi is handy. That is the only on-board product that I > can > > think of that has a reason. The sound, video, and etc. certainly seem to > be > > the bottom end of the device capability range. I don't like internal > modems > > because you can reset them with out a reboot and a built-in modem is > looked > > at with even greater disapproval. So, I think Rick's first sentence was > > phrased just about right. > > > > Kent > > > > > > > > > > > Rick > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message