Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 18:58:22 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Cc: rgrimes@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for motherboard... Message-ID: <199611020828.SAA06818@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199611020808.KAA24576@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Nov 2, 96 10:08:31 am
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Mark Murray stands accused of saying: > > 1) The board has sockets for two Pentium processors. Do the SMP crowd > support this board? (It uses a 82430HX - is that Triton-II?) Dunno and hes. > 2) The ram supported is "Fast Page Mode" or "EDO". What does this mean, > and if it is a choice, which is more appropriate to FreeBSD? FPM is "old" technology, EDO is "new" (and just recently, cheaper) technology. > 3) It has on-board an Adaptec 7880 chip. Will the be recognised by FreeBSD, > and if so, as what? (AHC<something>?) Yup. > 4) What does a UMC8669/SMC669 I/O chip do? Serial/Parallel I/O? It's a "multi I/O" chip; serial, parallel, floppy. > Mark Murray -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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