From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 9 17:32: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C034A37BAAB for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:31:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00450; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200006100035.RAA00450@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Sergey Babkin Cc: FreeBSD hackers list Subject: Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2000 20:28:10 EDT." <39418B9A.3AA96320@bellatlantic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 17:35:53 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Nicole Harrington." wrote: > > > > Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will > > not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to > > be configured. :( > > That may be as well due to the bugs in Mylex soft. In this case, that's not correct. Or at least, if it is, Adaptec, AMI, ICP Vortex, Compaq, IBM, Symbios and just about every other vendor of add-in cards with boot vector interests have a similar set of bugs. > I have used different > Mylex cards on a few occasions (the last one was testing SCSI drivers > for my employer) and _always_ had some problems with > them. Sometimes upgrading the Mylex drivers and/or configuration > utility helps, sometimes does not. I hate Mylex terribly and would > strongly recommend staying as far away from Mylex as possible. I have a lot of Mylex hardware around here (obviously enough), and I can't say their stuff is any worse than anyone else's. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message