From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 17 16:22:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4035314D43 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:22:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt4-208-166-127-248.dialup.HiWAAY.net [208.166.127.248]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA08472; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:22:47 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA21470; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:06:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199911180006.SAA21470@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Andrew Reilly Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers), dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-S and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE In-reply-to: Message from Andrew Reilly of "Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:44:32 +1100." <99111716482700.39935@gurney.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:06:45 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Reilly writes: > > Fair enough. I didn't realise that an extra-card '875 would be cheaper > than the on-board Adaptec. I'm onto my second built-in-Adaptec motherboard > (first iwill, now gigabyte), and they've both worked like champs. I > remember them being less expensive than the equivelant board+Adaptec card, > but probably didn't compare them to the '875 for price. My Asus P2B-S MB was about $325, or roughly the price of a functionally similar Adaptec 2940U2W. Asus includes an U2W cable with LVD terminator, a plain wide SCSI cable, narrow SCSI cable, and another for wide external connection. So for $200 over a plain P2B-F its a good value, but not a huge bargain. Then after chosing onboard Adaptec SCSI I bought a separate Intel Etherexpess 10/100 NIC rather than buy one on the Asus MB. Just no accounting for what us consumers will do.... :-) Actually was concerned with a volage differential in the building on the ethernet wires messing up my MB, so I bought a "disposable" PCI card that will hopefully isolate anything from the other components. I tend to favor keeping my tape and CD-R drives on a separate SCSI bus from the HD's. Its time to buy another '875 card. This vendor lists Symbios brand PCI cards for $65, any good or bad feedback? http://www.centrix-intl.com/ -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message