From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 10 17:52:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA22349 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [206.224.65.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA22344 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA22296; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:52:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Willcox Message-Id: <199604110052.TAA22296@luke.pmr.com> Subject: Re: Motherboards 'n Bioses To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:52:21 -0500 (CDT) Cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Apr 10, 96 06:18:59 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey wrote: > OK, I think I have a motherboard in my sights, the Tyan Tomcat I, but I > need some info on the BIOS. The vendor I found only uses Award and Mr. > Bios. I could get an AMI bios, but I'll have to go out of my way on it, > probably to another vendor. Does anyone have any compatibility info > about the Award BIOS and FreeBSD? All of the Pentium MBs I've used (about 8 all together) have had AWARD bios and they all have run FreeBSD, at one time or another. > > BTW, I'll be using SCSI only, using Tyan's own NCR based SCSI controller > (cheap). Several of my systems are using the ASUS SC200 SCSI adapters that are NCR 53C810 based. Seem to work fine. A have a few Adaptec 2940's as well that also work fine, though the NCR driver is friendler to my Exabyte EXB-8200 tape drives (doesn't complain about being busy during long operations like rewinds). -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com Austin, TX