From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 1 14:38:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16279 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16251 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:37:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA24714; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:36:18 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199607012136.OAA24714@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Pentium Pro question To: count@key.hole.fi (Bror 'Count' Heinola) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:36:17 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607012057.XAA06284@key.hole.fi> from Bror 'Count' Heinola at "Jul 1, 96 11:57:11 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. The ASUS PCI/I-P55T2P4 boards equiped with a 133 or 166 MHz CPU make outstanding NFS servers for 100Mbs networks, a Pentium PRO would be overkill, so yes, IMHO it would reasonable. > > 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. Not obsolete, just in production for at least 90 days. Serious bugs usually show up right away (Orion based boards had only been shipping for a few weeks before the 4.4MB/s problem was found). Subtle bugs can take a long time to show up, and often only effect very specific applications (ASUS PCI/I-P55TP4N ignore the NMI signal on the ISA bus, I have only known 1 person to ever run into that bug, and that was after I had been shipping those boards for 4 months). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD