From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 20 12:53:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25344 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:53:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25337 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:53:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00762; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:56:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810201956.MAA00762@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Richard Cownie cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SuperMicro P6DGE/P6DGS/P6DGU In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:45:21 EDT." <199810201945.PAA19023@jefferson.ma.ikos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:56:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm trying to put together a machine with 2 PII-450 cpu's and > at least 1GB of DRAM (preferably 2GB). It looks as though the > SuperMicro P6DGE/P6DGU/P6DGS would be good - my best guess > so far is a P6DGS running FreeBSD 3.0. > > Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD on any of these boards ? > Experience with 440GX systems with Xeon cpu's would also be > interesting. > > And does anyone know when and where 512MB PC100 DIMMs (needed > to support 2GB with the 440GX chipset) might be available at > a reasonable price ? What's your budget on this system? You might be able to pull something off with an IBM Netfinity 5000 box; I believe they have the 2-way Xeon upgrade out now, and they seemed certain you could put more than 1GB of memory in the box. I know they have the 2-way Xeon kit on the 5500, but we don't support the onboard SCSI controller so you'd be losing badly there. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message