From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 24 14:15:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postfix1.free.fr (postfix1.free.fr [212.27.32.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E57A37B43C for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 14:15:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from titine.fr.eu.org (massy-1-9-235.dial.proxad.net [213.228.9.235]) by postfix1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4186728096 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:15:09 +0200 (MEST) Received: by titine.fr.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 505E13A3F6; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:06:53 +0200 (CEST) X-Attribution: Jaco To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the Gigabyte GA 6VXC7 MB ok for FreeBSD ? References: From: Eric Jacoboni Date: 24 Sep 2000 23:06:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: Rick Hamell's message of "Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:56:21 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: <87k8c1cxeb.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Rick" == Rick Hamell writes: Rick> It's not the chipset, but rather what is done with the Rick> chipset. FIC, Tyan, Gigabyte, Asus, Soltek, Soho, etc, all use the same Rick> chipsets for their products. (...) Rick> Please remeber you asked for opinions. I'm giving you my Rick> experiences with these various brands of motherboards, and Rick> almost 10 years of playing with PC hardware in some of the Rick> roughest conditions. Thanks again for your opinion : i've really understood what you think of Gigabyte MB and i'm gonna ask my vendor if it possible to have another brand ;-) So, i repost my original question under another form (and with the same bad english...) : i'm searching for experienced users of any motherboard using the Apollo Pro chipset (VIA 694X) with FreeBSD... My question is about UDMA support : do they fall back to 16 MB/sec or not ? As i suspect that's the case, and as i've noticed that near 90% of recent MBs are using this chipset, is there a MB alternative (i815e based MB like the ones that Dell provides ?) or is it possible to buy another supported ATA controller (Promise, Highpoint) and plug it in the MB in order to take advantage of UDMA with such MB ? Thanks again, -- Éric Jacoboni, né il y a 1273193519 secondes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message