From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 14 14:54: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-115.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F067837B42C; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01453; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:52:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200009142152.OAA01453@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TYAN Thunder 2500-80 and FreeBSD 4.1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:52:57 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:52:39 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I need a little bit help and assistance in some hardware/smp questions. > At the moment, one of our main servers is based on a dual-gigabyte intel > 440BX chipset based mainboard. These days we change, we want to swapp > over to a new mainboard and new CPUs. The mainboard has been choosen > from TYAN, TYAN Thunder 2500-80. I watched out for compatibility reasons > not to obtain the Symbios Logic 53C1010 (SCSI-3/160) based board, because > SymbiosLogic 53C896 seems to be fully supported. The 53c1010 is also very well supported. > It seems, that the > TYAN Thunder 2500 is one of the best mainboards on market - but has anyone > tested it using FBSD? Yes. We (FreeBSD Labs) evaluated a sample of this board about a month ago. I had no problems with it at all, and qualified it for FreeBSD 4.1 and above. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message