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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:09:37 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
To:        hodeleri@seattleu.edu (Eric Hodel)
Cc:        paalsom@ifi.uio.no, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need advice on what motherboard to pick (and SCSI controller +  drive)
Message-ID:  <199811191009.KAA17359@lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3653ACC7.E3E647BA@seattleu.edu> from Eric Hodel at "Nov 18, 98 09:29:43 pm"

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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.

This may be fixed in later BIOS releases. I got a P2B-S a few weeks ago and
I don't have any problem booting from floppy with IDE disabled.


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