From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 1 13:57:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA09877 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 13:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lassie.eunet.fi (lassie.eunet.fi [192.26.119.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09807 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 13:57:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from key.hole.fi by lassie.eunet.fi with SMTP id AA22905 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 1 Jul 1996 23:57:12 +0300 Received: (from count@localhost) by key.hole.fi (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA06284; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 23:57:12 +0300 (EET DST) From: "Bror 'Count' Heinola" Message-Id: <199607012057.XAA06284@key.hole.fi> Subject: Re: Pentium Pro question To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 23:57:11 +0300 (EET DST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607011524.IAA19697@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jul 1, 96 08:24:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rodney W. Grimes taisi sanoa: > > If you go P6RP4 make darn sure that you have the B0 or later chipset, > anything before that will fail misserably with the 100Mbs ethernet > card. Thank you, I'll call them tomorrow and ask some more about their boards. Would it be reasonable to go with a Pentium 166 and Triton-II board instead of an early Orion, given the tasks the computer is supposed to be doing? ie. heavy on I/O, not much CPU required. > I wish I had more data on the Natoma chipset, but that only comes with > time. Yeah, information usually becomes available after it's been obsolete for a while. -- Bror 'Count' Heinola % count@key.hole.fi % http://pobox.com/~count/ Pengerkatu 13b A5 % IRC: Count NIC: BH271 % FI-00530 HELSINKI % Work: bror@sms.fi % Roads? Where we're going, Cell: +358-40-5533-554 % Santa Monica Software % we don't need roads.