From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 25 12:55: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1091A37B422 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:54:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA83523; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:54:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:54:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: David Burton Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: asus recommendation In-Reply-To: <20000925123700.B4086@slick.earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, David Burton wrote: > My first impression with an ASUS board (CUV4X) was good except for > one nagging factor. They were either too lazy or too cheap to > integrate the second com ports right beside the first on the atx > edge. But rather put as a header on the board and mounted it on a > bracket to take up an expansion slot. Looking at some other models > I saw that they had put both coms on the atx edge(what ever the > proper name for it is). IMHO that really sucks. I'm sure it wasn't out of lazyness, since the header, cable, and bracket would cost them more money and more engineering time than just putting the second COM port on the ATX backplane. Was on-board video an option on that board? If so, thats where the video connector would have gone. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message