From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 07:25:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA01916 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 07:25:43 -0800 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA01911 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 07:25:40 -0800 Received: from elbereth.blueberry.co.uk (surfs-up.demon.co.uk [158.152.128.94]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id HAA26743 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 07:25:23 -0800 Received: (from nik@localhost) by elbereth.blueberry.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA01688 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 14:08:53 GMT From: Nik Clayton Message-Id: <199512011408.OAA01688@elbereth.blueberry.co.uk> Subject: Component check To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 14:08:52 +0000 () X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1447 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Has anyone got any horror stories about the following pieces of kit? I'm planning on putting together my next FreeBSD system, and want it to be as hassle free as possible. I will be running 2.0.5 initially, with an upgrade to 2.1 (or any updated versions) around about Christmas time: Motherboard: ASUS P55TP4XE (I don't anticipate any problems, many of you on this list have recommended it) Cache: 256K Pipeline I've seen some comments about pipeline problems with 2.1 recently. Is this a generic problem, or just restricted to certain motherboards? Chipset: Intel Triton BIOS: Award Flash IDE: On board 2 port enhanced SCSI BIOS: NCR SCSI control: ASUS SC200 Fast SCSI-2 Graphics: Diamond Stealth 64 1 Mbyte PCI CD-ROM: NEX 5xi 6 speed SCSI 2 Memory: 60ns EDO SIMMs I might instead opt for: Graphics: Diamond Stealth 64 2 Mbyte DRAM PCI or Graphics: Diamond Stealth 64 2 Mbyte VRAM PCI The only potential problems I see there are a) SCSI and EIDE conflicts. But since I don't intend to have any EIDE disks on the system there should be no problems. b) Incompatibilities with the Diamond Stealth. Anyone got any advice they could pass on? N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry Design ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+--