Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 00:22:23 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Motherboards Message-ID: <199501250522.AAA00482@goof.com>
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With all the recent discussion about the faulty, unreliable motherboard I
was recently unfortunate to purchase, I've been wondering what a really good
motherboard to use with FreeBSD is. I'll be returning this "gem" of a
motherboard as soon as I get one in that works really well. My options are as
follows: a straight VLB motherboard that has 8 SIMM slots, and can handle 4 4M
SIMMs and 4 1M SIMMs; a PCI motherboard that's got some VLB slots, that can
handle 30 pin SIMMs and 72 pin SIMMs, preferably lots of both; or a PCI
motherboard that has no VLB slots, but has an onboard scsi that will work well
with FreeBSD and can handle some 30 pin SIMMs. As far as what I want the board
to be like goes, I'd just like one that has a fast cache, can support of to 1M
of cache, but comes with either 256K or 512K, has a BIOS that will work well
with FreeBSD, and is pretty reliable and so forth, so as not to act flakey
under FreeBSD (where my machine spends 99.9% of its time). Anyone have any
suggestions? Thanks, I appreciate it greatly!
-matt
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Matthew C. Mead -- System/Network Administration, User Support, Software Devel.
Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research
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