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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@seagull.rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: Motherboards
To: mmead@goof.com (matthew c. mead)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 08:11:01 -0700 (MST)
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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...