From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 10 17: 2:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from velvet.sensation.net.au (tunnel0-velvet-brunswick.sensation.net.au [203.20.114.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF93215374 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:02:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) Received: from localhost (rowan@localhost) by velvet.sensation.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA20047 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:02:05 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: velvet.sensation.net.au: rowan owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:02:02 +1100 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TX pro II motherboard In-Reply-To: <387A6103.3D531371@oss.uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Pete Mckenna wrote: > We have 50 or so L440GX MB runnig FreeBSD and are pretty happy with > them. > They have a Intel PRO/100+ (Intel 82559) and Adaptec 7896 Dual Channel > SCSI onboard. > These boards also can export preboot info via a serial port which is > nice for long distance bios access. We have many of these server in > remote dark sites. A new rev is supposed to support up to 700MHZ PIII. > Oh, and these are SMP boards. Sounds great, except for the price... a quick look at a price list shows that it's nearly 8 times that of the TX pro II! It won't be a high end server so that board would definitely be overkill. The serial port boot sounds good too - that's the only reason I need video on board, to configure the BIOS and debug any early boot problems... Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ Sensation Internet Services http://www.sensation.net.au/ Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-9388-9260 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message