From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 21 09:20:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA08894 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 09:20:59 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA08884 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 09:20:56 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA12891; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 09:20:56 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507211620.JAA12891@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Intel motherboards OK??? To: gja@ansley.com (Greg Ansley) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 09:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507211521.LAA00659@ansley.com> from "Greg Ansley" at Jul 21, 95 11:21:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1327 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I seem to recall reports of problems with Intel Premier Series motherboards. > Are these boards usable with FreeBSD or was their some fatal flaw that > caused them not to work. (These motherboard are one possible choice for > a project I'm working on). Just noted you said ``Intel Premier Series'', now do you mean the Premier I (aka Batman), Premier II (aka Plato), or Premier III (aka Zappa, Morison, Alladin, or Endavor). Below I am addressing the Premier II/Plato card issues. They well work to run FreeBSD on, you just have to be very carefull about configurations. I can easily build single user machines with them with 1 scsi controller on PCI (aha2940 would be your best bet here, do not attempt to get a bt946 to work in these MB, it is painful). Make sure you get the specified tin simms. And don't try to run a 100Mhz CPU in them, that does cause cache failures in many cases. Watch out trying to run large amounts of memory and use only single density simms with 24 or less chips on them (infact as bad as this board seems stay with 9 chip simms if at all possible.) If you can simply avoid this board, it is a painful one to get to run reliably. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD