From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 18:52:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from is2.net.ohio-state.edu (is2.net.ohio-state.edu [128.146.48.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AEDB1538B for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:52:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from maf@dev1.net.ohio-state.edu) Received: (qmail 19298 invoked from network); 13 Mar 1999 02:51:41 -0000 Received: from dev1.net.ohio-state.edu (128.146.222.3) by is2.net.ohio-state.edu with SMTP; 13 Mar 1999 02:51:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 25764 invoked by uid 4454); 13 Mar 1999 02:51:41 -0000 Message-ID: <19990312215141.A25501@net.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 21:51:41 -0500 From: Mark Fullmer To: Billy Thompson , hardware@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Question References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91i In-Reply-To: ; from Billy Thompson on Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 07:10:36PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is the system I'm thinking of getting. I've heard from on person who > had a bad experience with Asus' on-board SCSI controller. I was wondering > if any of you have had any problems with this mainboard or any of the > other parts. I do intend to use the onboard controller unless there are > problems with that. I've been running four of the P2BLS + PII 350's for about five months without any problems. If you're running the older 2.2-stable + CAM the AHC7890 PCI bus parity chipset bug workaround from -current will need to be applied. The diff is only a few lines. > ASUS P2B-S w/Adaptec AIC 7890 & 3860 80MB/s UtraWide SCSI Controller > Intel Celeron 400 Mhz 66Mhz/128K > 128 MB SDRAM PC100, 16x64 I'd recommend using ECC memory and enabling it in the BIOS. -- mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message