From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 01:41:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA08866 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 01:41:34 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA08860 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 01:41:29 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA01521; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 01:41:25 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506070841.BAA01521@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Intel Triton Chipset... To: john@pyromania.apana.org.au (John Herks) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 01:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506070054.KAA27420@pyromania.apana.org.au> from "John Herks" at Jun 7, 95 10:54:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 855 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > I am have been running FreeBSD 2.0R on a SOYO/Intel Neptune chipset P90 > motherboard for the last few months. I am using a NCR PCI SCSI Controller. > > Everything has been running fine.. > > I am about to upgrade to a SOYO/Intel Triton chipset P100 motherboard and > I was wondering if there would be any problems running FreeBSD 2.0R with > this new chipset ? Chip set works fine, don't know about the SOYO implementation of the motherboard though. I am using ASUS products and they are working just fine. Be aware that Triton does not do parity checking on memory, Intel decided to save a few bucks and left it out. [They should have made a few more bucks and added ECC IMHO!!!] -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD