Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:57:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: gummibear@we.mediaone.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concerning Ultra DMA/33 and Chipsets Message-ID: <19990620095751.F1076@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990619161324.007ae530@we.mediaone.net>; from gummibear@we.mediaone.net on Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 04:13:24PM -0700 References: <3.0.6.32.19990619161324.007ae530@we.mediaone.net>
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On Saturday, 19 June 1999 at 16:13:24 -0700, gummibear@we.mediaone.net wrote: > > Greetings! > > I've been on the hunt for the perfect motherboard to replace my old P133 > FreeBSD machine which is pretty much on it's last leg. > > I've been using an Asus P5A for my girlfriend's Photoshop/HTML machine > which uses an ALi Alladin V chipset. The Asus P5A is a great board with > alot of nice features and utilizes the low cost AMD K6-2 chip, but I heard > that the ALi chipset isn't supported by FreeBSD as far as Ultra DMA/33 is > concerned. I have heard that the VIA chipsets are supported in respect to > Ultra DMA/33. > > First of all, I'd like to know if all the above is correct (that which > concerns FreeBSD and the mentioned chipsets). We support: Acer Aladdin IV/V (M5229) Bus-master IDE controller Is this the chipset you have? > Also, I'd like to know if the SiS chipsets are supported by FreeBSD > in respect to Ultra DMA/33. We have: SiS 5591 Bus-master IDE Controller I'm using it, and it works, but some older (> 18 months) revisions of the chip set have problems. If you buy a new motherboard, you shouldn't have any problems. > Which motherboards would you recommend based on chipset? I've heard good things of the performance of VIA (Apollo) chipsets. We support the 82C586x, but I don't know how well. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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