Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 21:44:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "James R. Shrenk" <dionysos3@crosswinds.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: gummibear@we.mediaone.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concerning Ultra DMA/33 and Chipsets Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906192142200.847-100000@neptune.twrol.com> In-Reply-To: <19990620095751.F1076@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. Fairly well actually. I use an epox board with this chipset and have had zero problems in FreeBSD with it. One minor glitch in windows with the DMA but otherwise wonderful James > > 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-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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