From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 10:55:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA17144 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:55:16 -0800 Received: from dtr.com (dtr.rain.com [204.119.8.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA17139 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:55:08 -0800 From: bmk@dtr.com Received: (from bmk@localhost) by dtr.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA00415; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:51:54 -0800 Message-Id: <199512011851.KAA00415@dtr.com> Subject: Re: Component check To: nik@blueberry.co.uk (Nik Clayton) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:51:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512011408.OAA01688@elbereth.blueberry.co.uk> from "Nik Clayton" at Dec 1, 95 02:08:52 pm Reply-To: bmk@dtr.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1066 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 Good choice. I just bought one from Rodney Grimes (thanks, Rod!) and am very pleased with it. The mysterious problems I was having with my old motherboard have mysteriously vanished. :) > I've seen some comments about pipeline problems with 2.1 recently. Is this > a generic problem, or just restricted to certain motherboards? Dunno. > SCSI control: ASUS SC200 Fast SCSI-2 Good choice. I'm happy with mine. > Graphics: Diamond Stealth 64 1 Mbyte PCI Can't comment. I got the ASUS Trio64 card. > CD-ROM: NEX 5xi 6 speed SCSI 2 > Memory: 60ns EDO SIMMs Can't really go wrong here.