Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:33:07 -0600 (CST) From: "Andrew J. Doane" <adoane@eagle.ais.net> To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: adoane@eagle.ais.net (Andrew J. Doane) Subject: Dual proc PII MB of choice? Message-ID: <199802242333.RAA29661@eagle.ais.net>
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Anyone have any suggestions as to the motherboard of choice for dual PII
under fbsd?
I'm looking at:
1. ASUS P2L97-DS
Has older AIC-7880 chipset, should be 2940UW compatible, and work
w/fbsd out of the box. I've had ASUS boards before and did have
problems. Have they improved over the past year? Comments?
2. Super Micro D6DLS
I read from the verious newsgroups that Super Micro boards may have
problem w/SMP and fbsd. I also have no personal experience with
super micro MBs. It also has the older AIC-7880. Comments?
3. Tyan S1696DLUA
Uses the AIC-7895 which I've had conflicting reports on fbsd support.
One person said no, while another said it was beta within the cam scsi
drivers and had it working on this very board. Its a nice
motherboard; it gives you two ultra wide buses AND a narrow bus.
The only thing I've found in the manual that I don't like is that
it appears you cannot independantly set the CPU and bus speeds (for
overclocking). You can on the ASUS and Super Micro. The Tyan
supports SPD (Serial Presence Detect) which the ASUS and Super Micro
make no reference of. Nice for proper RAM timing configuration.
Comments? Anyone tried one of these boards and ditched it for another?
Thanks,
/ajd/
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