From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 15 03:59:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA23421 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 03:59:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mccomm.nl (root@gatekeeper.mccomm.nl [193.67.87.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id DAA23416 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 03:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from hpserver.mccomm.nl (hpserver.mccomm.nl [193.67.87.13]) by mccomm.nl (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA00873; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 12:57:38 +0100 Message-Id: <199701151157.MAA00873@mccomm.nl> Received: by hpserver.mccomm.nl (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA07643; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 12:57:01 +0100 From: Rob Schofield Subject: Re: Motherboard & ChipSet pointers? To: smp@csn.net, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org (Hardware list at FreeBSD) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 97 12:57:01 MET In-Reply-To: <199701142207.PAA28417@clem.systemsix.com>; from "Steve Passe" at Jan 14, 97 3:07 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85.2.1] Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > EISA should be avoided for SMP/technical reasons (which I have gone into > in detail in the past). I highly recommend the Gigabyte GA586DX if > you want a P5 system. P6 is an unknown to me. Steve, can you briefly re-hash these for me, or point me at a doc I can look at? This is worrying as I have picked up an EISA-based server expressly to run BSD! Any info gratefully received. Rob Schofield -- Witticisms are hard to define on Monday mornings... schofiel@xs4all.nl http://www.xs4all.nl/~schofiel rschof@mccomm.nl