Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:29:43 -0800 From: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l?= Sommerhein <paalsom@ifi.uio.no> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Need advice on what motherboard to pick (and SCSI controller + drive) Message-ID: <3653ACC7.E3E647BA@seattleu.edu> References: <3652110C.72D7F753@ifi.uio.no>
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I have the P2B-LS and have had only problems with it. The first is that you can't turn off the network card unless you plug all the IRQs. You won't have this problem until they create a P2B-DLS. The other problem I had was with first setting it up and that was that it wouldn't boot off a floppy. Apparently have to enable the IDE controller in order to enable the floppy. As far as SCSI drives, the P2B-LS doesn't have an 80-pin SCA SCSI connector. I can't say anything about the dual processor option, but it does have up to a 6x clock multiplier and up to a 112MHz front side bus, great for those two new, faster processors (or overclocking.) The 2.2.7-RELEASE boot disk didn't have the 789x support I needed, but 3.0-RELEASE did. I currently own a TEAC CD-532S and the best feature it has is a little spring on the drive tray that holds the disc in place to keep it from falling out if mounted sideways, much better than the swivels in other drives. Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu "Pål Sommerhein" wrote: > > I have been thinking of buying either an ASUS or SuperMicro motherboard > (using a PII-350MHz CPU). In particular: > > Asus P2B-DS > ----------- > Pentium II, 233 - 450 MHz, 440BX chipset, 100MHz frontbus, > DIMM sockets EDO/SDRAM RAM, Ultra DMA/33 controller, 2xUSB, > WakeOnLan(WOL), LM780 chip, Award Flash BIOS, Slot One > > 1xAGP, 4xPCI, 2xISA, 4xDIMM, Dual Pentium-II, ATX-Design > Integrated onboard AIC-7890 U2W Ultra 2 SCSI controller. > > SuperMicro P6DBS > ---------------- > Pentium II, 233-400MHz, 440BX chipset, 1xAGP, 4xPCI, > 3xISA, EDO/SDRAM RAM, Ultra DMA/33 controller, 2xUSB, > Wake On Lan(WOL), LM780 chip, Award Flash BIOS, > Slot One, ATX-Design. > 4xDIMM sockets, integrated onboard AIC-7895 Dual Channel > Ultra Wide SCSI controller. > > Any pros/cons? > > Should I go for an onboard SCSI controller(host adapter)? > > Are harddisks from IBM ok? > I was thinking of: > IBM SCSI UltraStar 9ES 4,5GB DDRS-34560W, > 7.5ms, 512kB, 7200 rpm, UW-SCSI > > Any suggestions on graphics card? > > What about CD-rewritable CD-roms? > (like Philips CDR3600, CD-Rewritable, Internal SCSI, > 2x write CD-R, 2x CD-RW, 6x read. ) > > Any other thoughts or considerations I ought to make? > > Best regards, > Pål > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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