From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 31 5:38:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17C3737B7E8 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 05:38:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 84643 invoked by uid 1825); 31 Mar 2000 13:38:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Mar 2000 13:38:40 -0000 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:38:40 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: Essenz Consulting Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboards for 2u Rack mounts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Essenz Consulting wrote: > The only problem with the L440GX+ is getting them. There are real hard to > find now since Intel is phasing them out, intro the 820 and 840 chip > boards. About 3 weeks ago I treid to get a hold of 4 L440GX+'s, I must of > called about 10 distributors, nobody had it. Try: http://www.aberdeeninc.com They had them around that time, when everybody else was telling me they couldn't get them. Competitively priced, too ($569, IIRC). > As for a good motherboard, as soon as all the bugs are ironed out with the > Supermicro PIIIDM3, thats a powerfull board. The 840 chipset blows away > 440BX/GX based boards. Not to mention 4 Gb of memory support! > > -john > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > up@3.am wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > > > > > > > Well I got my dream come true... I have been assigned to build some > > > > servers based on server based motherboards. (sounds kinda corny). These > > > > servers are going to be housed in 2u rack mount cases. Since I have > > > > never had the luxury or the funding to accomplish this in the past I > > > > never looked at the hardware. Now I am looking and I feel totally > > > > unprepared on what is the best and best supported motherbaord to chose > > > > to put these into service with FreeBSD. > > > > > > I've been happy with Intel L440GX+'s, but they ain't cheap... > > > > I second that. You can even change the BIOS options from the serial > > console. Mondo cool. > > > > Doug > > -- > > "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into > > existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. > > The master simply replied, "Mu." > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message