From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 10 22:18:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ruminary.org (chiku.ruminary.org [216.218.185.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE1937B403 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 22:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ruminary.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1048322E19; Fri, 10 May 2002 22:18:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 22:18:15 -0700 From: clark shishido To: Doug White Cc: Josef Grosch , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What hardware do you use ? Message-ID: <20020510221815.A64621@ruminary.org> References: <20020510153118.GA23467@mooseriver.com> <20020510112835.B45651-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020510112835.B45651-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu on Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:48:12AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:48:12AM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > 1) At eGroups/Y!Groups we used Intel L440GX+ motherboards. These are now > (sadly) discontinued, but supported slotted P2 and P3 CPUs. Very solid if > you used approved memory. I despise the L440GX+ mobos I have to work with at work (AvantGo). I've run into many SCSI errors with the L440GX+ unless you have BIOS revision 14.x or higher. They're a pain in the a** to upgrade the BIOS, and one of the SCSI buses is dumbed down to SE. The only redeeming feature of the L440GX+ is that they have the BIOS out serial console, but they haven't earn my trust. I used to have a two cabinets full of Tyan 1837's which were rock solid; I never had to go to the colo armed with a boot CD and a BIOS on a floppy just to stabilize a machine. That's my opinion for BX/GX based mobo's. I'm still undecided on the newer AthlonMP and Intel SBC2 boards, but of course I don't form judgemental opinions until I've admin'ed them for at least a year. --clark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message