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From: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>
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To: Robert Schien <robsch@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

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