Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 11:54:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Doug Junkins <junkins@foghead.com>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 440BX based SMP systems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980611114757.13603A-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <199806111606.MAA19787@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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The ASUS DS should work well, but will require the CAM driver for the onboard SCSI. It uses AIC-7890. Great board though; I'd recommend PC100/ECC DIMMS for best reliability. Single P2-400's are fast as hell. If I am not mistaken, we sent one of these boards to Steve Passe (smp@csn.net), who does much of the SMP development. If it didn't work, he probably would have returned it. Kevin On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Doug Junkins writes: > > > > > > Whoops. I cut & paste the wrong line. I'd meant N440BX "Nightshade."g > > > Sorry for the confusion. > > > > > > And thanks to everybody who has replied, I've gotten a few good > > > recommendations. > > > > > > > Please summarize the responses -- there may be others (besides myself) > > interested as well. > > > > -Doug > > > I heard from people running: > > 3 SuperMicro P6DBS w/dual 350MHz PII, running -current > 1 IWill DBS100 running FreeBSD 3.0-980523-SNAP > 1 dual Tyan tiger motherboard (BX) w/400mhz running linux > > > Since I've heard negative reviews of the SuperMicro > (http://www.tomshardware.com/supermicrop6dbs.html), my vendor doesn't > sell the IWill, and the Tyan is running linux & not FreeBSD, I'm going to > order an Asus P2B-DS. I chose the Asus because I've had good > experiences with Asus boards in the past, and if I'm going to jump in > blind I'll be more comfortable going with an Asus. > > Drew > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin > Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu > Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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