Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 20:58:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: blanquer@cast-info.es (Josep M. Blanquer), freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP testing machine Message-ID: <199910300358.UAA32986@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910291840090.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> from Alfred Perlstein at "Oct 29, 1999 06:41:24 pm"
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> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Josep M. Blanquer wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > > We're looking on buying a new SMP machine for testing/fixing our > > kernel extensions > > to be 'SMP compliant'. For that we'd like a non-SMP-problematic machine, > > known > > to work well with the actual SMP implementation. > > I know several people using Asus P2D boards, besideds somewhat weird > BIOS (an upgrade may fix it) they run pretty good. > > Lately with all the hardware I've been looking at most generic > motherboards seem to work fine with FreeBSD, a few of the more > proprietary stuff can be a pain though. And we, AAI, the very first supplier of SMP boxes for the development effort, are the in process of switching from the ASUS boards (they still work great, I'm not in any way down grading the quality/name brand status of ASUS) to Soltek (www.soltek,com.tw) due to our being a manufacture direct distributor for their products. I have run they SL-68A through the ringers here and it works just as good as the ASUS board at 1/2 the price. The board is a very similar to the ASUS card, with some minor physical component location differences, the more familiar standard AWARD 4.51PG bios interface, and no play around with games called ``jumperfreee'' and some of the other not so good stunts ASUS has pulled in their more recent product offering. That and we get A#1 support from Soltek on this product, right down to an Engineer on the phone if we have a problem of some sort (we have not had to do that on this board, but on our more popular SL54U1 super socket 7 there where early issues with AMD K6-2 100Mhz bus CPU's that they had fixed in days for us, no marketing sales people got in our way, it was engineer to engineer, though we could have used a translator :-).) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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