From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 21 02:06:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA02888 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 02:06:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.prosodie.com (firewall.prosodie.com [194.51.95.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA02881 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 02:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fsegura@prosodie.com) Received: from exchange.prosodie.com (exchange.prosodie.com [194.51.95.33]) by firewall.prosodie.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22329; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:04:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from fsegura@prosodie.com) Received: by exchange.prosodie.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id <4QQ57N14>; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:04:01 +0200 Message-ID: From: Fabrice Segura To: "'Mike Smith'" , Richard Cownie Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SuperMicro P6DGE/P6DGS/P6DGU Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:04:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA02882 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Have a look at Compaq R5500 Xeon. The onboard SCSI Controller is NCR 53C876 and should be supported by BSD, and the Compaq On-board Ethernet card should be supported with 3.0 > -----Message d'origine----- > De: Mike Smith [SMTP:mike@smith.net.au] > Date: mardi 20 octobre 1998 21:57 > À: Richard Cownie > Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > Objet: Re: SuperMicro P6DGE/P6DGS/P6DGU > > > I'm trying to put together a machine with 2 PII-450 cpu's and > > at least 1GB of DRAM (preferably 2GB). It looks as though the > > SuperMicro P6DGE/P6DGU/P6DGS would be good - my best guess > > so far is a P6DGS running FreeBSD 3.0. > > > > Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD on any of these boards ? > > Experience with 440GX systems with Xeon cpu's would also be > > interesting. > > > > And does anyone know when and where 512MB PC100 DIMMs (needed > > to support 2GB with the 440GX chipset) might be available at > > a reasonable price ? > > What's your budget on this system? You might be able to pull > something > off with an IBM Netfinity 5000 box; I believe they have the 2-way Xeon > > upgrade out now, and they seemed certain you could put more than 1GB > of > memory in the box. > > I know they have the 2-way Xeon kit on the 5500, but we don't support > the onboard SCSI controller so you'd be losing badly there. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message