Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 13:54:09 +0200 (EET) From: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net> To: Robert Schien <robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Which PPro board? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970120135038.6420T-100000@trifork.gu.net> In-Reply-To: <m0vlcxS-00065AC@robkaos.ruhr.de>
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Hi, On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Robert Schien wrote: > But what motherboard should I buy? Asus? Tyan? > Does anyone know something about Chaintech? Or: any opinions on Intel Providence 2xPPro board? > Is it correct that on non-ASUS boards I need a SCSI host > adapter with BIOS if I want to boot from the SCSI drive? Not always. Almost all PCI MBs I've seen in last 2 years which are equipped with Award BIOS -- they all had NCR BIOS embedded. But -- YMMV. Intel MBs do not have NCR BIOS, for example, and their BIOS is from Phoenix, AFAIK. Best regards, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE
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