Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 08:11:01 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@seagull.rtd.com> To: mmead@goof.com (matthew c. mead) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Motherboards Message-ID: <199501251511.IAA26765@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <199501250522.AAA00482@goof.com> from "matthew c. mead" at Jan 25, 95 00:22:23 am
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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 Seems like you could better spend your money on extra DRAM instead of a huge ^^ cache... I doubt the gains when you exceed 128K of cache justify the expense relative to the gains some extra (regular) memory can bring.... (my $0.02) > 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! G'Luck...
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