Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:26:37 -0700 (MST) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: "Andrew J. Doane" <adoane@eagle.ais.net> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, "Andrew J. Doane" <adoane@eagle.ais.net> Subject: Re: Dual proc PII MB of choice? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980224172504.5525A-100000@dot.ishiboo.com> In-Reply-To: <199802242333.RAA29661@eagle.ais.net>
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Avoid the SuperMicro like the Plague. I'd recommend GA-686DLS #1, ASUS P2L97DS #2, then Tyan. You do not want AMI (or Phoenix) BIOS, so no Micronics, Intel, SuperMicro, etc. Kevin On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Andrew J. Doane wrote: > Anyone have any suggestions as to the motherboard of choice for dual PII > under fbsd? > > I'm looking at: > > 1. ASUS P2L97-DS > > Has older AIC-7880 chipset, should be 2940UW compatible, and work > w/fbsd out of the box. I've had ASUS boards before and did have > problems. Have they improved over the past year? Comments? > > 2. Super Micro D6DLS > > I read from the verious newsgroups that Super Micro boards may have > problem w/SMP and fbsd. I also have no personal experience with > super micro MBs. It also has the older AIC-7880. Comments? > > 3. Tyan S1696DLUA > > Uses the AIC-7895 which I've had conflicting reports on fbsd support. > One person said no, while another said it was beta within the cam scsi > drivers and had it working on this very board. Its a nice > motherboard; it gives you two ultra wide buses AND a narrow bus. > The only thing I've found in the manual that I don't like is that > it appears you cannot independantly set the CPU and bus speeds (for > overclocking). You can on the ASUS and Super Micro. The Tyan > supports SPD (Serial Presence Detect) which the ASUS and Super Micro > make no reference of. Nice for proper RAM timing configuration. > > Comments? Anyone tried one of these boards and ditched it for another? > > Thanks, > /ajd/ > -- > _/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/ Andrew J. Doane > _/ _/ _/ _/ Director, Network Operations > _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/ American Information Systems, Inc. > _/ _/ _/ _/ Email: adoane@ais.net, http://www.ais.net > _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ (312) 255-8500 Voice, (312) 255-8501 Fax > For my PGP public key, email me with the > subject "pgp request" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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