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From: "David Alderman" <dave@persprog.com>
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 09:56:17 EST
Subject: Re: Motherboards
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> I'm looking to build a Pentium system to run FreeBSD. I'm looking for a
> good quality motherboard that can do parity on the memory, and is PCI. What
> are you using? What would you reccomend? Thanks for helping a FreeBSD
> newbie.
> Thanks
> 
> Scott
I would recommend ASUS boards in general.  They have a fairly good 
track record.  To get parity, you will need either a Triton II or a 
Neptune board (the Triton II is the newer chipset).  Does anybody 
have a Triton II (82430HX) board working with FreeBSD?  I seem to 
remember some problem with it, but that it may have been fixed a 
couple of weeks ago?  Also if anyone has a list of boards in general 
that support parity or (egad!) ECC, it might be nice to post it here. 
I have a problem with making servers that have no provision for 
detecting even simple single bit errors.
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