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From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>
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Subject: RE: supermicro motherboards
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 22:47:59 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mikel King
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 2:49 PM
> To: frebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
> Subject: supermicro motherboards
>
>
> Hi all. I've been tasked with building a new server and I
> am looking at
> two motherboard from supermicro both have 64bit pci slots
> and support
> atleast two 1ghz cpus.

	Sounds like fun!  *grins*

> 370der with ati rage xl onboard, and scsi onboard & dual EIDE
> 370dec just dual EIDE

	If it was me, and a true high performance server, I'd take the DER
model.  Turn off the EIDE setup, connect some low speed periphs
(CD-Rom, etc.) to the onboard SCSI, and drop in a high performance
SCSI/RAID controller in one of the 64 bit slots.

> Anyone ever use a supermicro board? Are there any known issues w/
> freebsd?

	One of the companies that I worked for (about this time last year
even, imagine that), had a server that had a dual slot 1 board from
SuperMicro.  Machine ran flawlessly.  I'd highly recommend them...
but, be careful which case hardware you use.  They also make great
cases, which compliment their motherboards very well.

--- Andy


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