From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 11 09:06:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18459 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:06:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18422; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@duke.cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA24573; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:06:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19787; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:06:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:06:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199806111606.MAA19787@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Doug Junkins CC: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 440BX based SMP systems In-Reply-To: References: <199806101345.JAA13952@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.31 under 20.2 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Junkins writes: > > > > Whoops. I cut & paste the wrong line. I'd meant N440BX "Nightshade."g > > Sorry for the confusion. > > > > And thanks to everybody who has replied, I've gotten a few good > > recommendations. > > > > Please summarize the responses -- there may be others (besides myself) > interested as well. > > -Doug I heard from people running: 3 SuperMicro P6DBS w/dual 350MHz PII, running -current 1 IWill DBS100 running FreeBSD 3.0-980523-SNAP 1 dual Tyan tiger motherboard (BX) w/400mhz running linux Since I've heard negative reviews of the SuperMicro (http://www.tomshardware.com/supermicrop6dbs.html), my vendor doesn't sell the IWill, and the Tyan is running linux & not FreeBSD, I'm going to order an Asus P2B-DS. I chose the Asus because I've had good experiences with Asus boards in the past, and if I'm going to jump in blind I'll be more comfortable going with an Asus. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message