From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 19:51:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5BE916A4ED for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:51:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E2443EB9 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:19:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2SJGxGU020147; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:17:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <44298B9C.7000404@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:16:44 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john@cruzweb.net References: <90B77A9F-FFE4-4227-80B1-FBF3DDC707B6@lafn.org> <4429691E.7010200@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4429691E.7010200@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Motherboards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:51:36 -0000 Doug Hardie wrote: >> I have a number of servers that are reaching end of life. >> They are over 7 years old and I can no longer find IDE >> drives that work with the slower controllers they have. >> These are all towers and use ASUS motherboards. >> Those were quite cheap at the time and the boards >> have worked very well over the years. However, I am >> now hearing rumers that ASUS motherboards are no >> longer the best quality and probably should be avoided. >> Don't need much on the machines, but do have to have >> 2 NICs and a SCSI controller on each. What are good, >> rock solid, motherboards with FreeBSD 6.0? > > John Cruz wrote: > I have to recommend MSI. I haven't run BSD on one yet > but they have always given me great performance and > reliability over time. They're not the cheapest, but I'd still > rather have a low-end MSI board then the most expensive > Abit or PC Chips board Interesting. I've not used a great many MSI boards, that's "Micro-Star International", but I'm sitting on one ATM. It "feels" cheap, but it runs quite well enough, considering it's FAMP devel/app server, LAN gateway/DNS, FTP server, and my desktop. I've pretty much given up on SOYO for reasons I can't even really remember ... I *think* it had to do with their phone support and return policy; I've several dead older SOYO boards in some drawer around here, a couple of which were DOA at the time, IIRC. OP: 2 NICS no issue here on older MSI board; also, this is the third "motherboard" thread this month (not complaining, but you can find more advice in the archives, perhaps.) Kevin Kinsey -- The days are all empty and the nights are unreal.