From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 11:32:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-r02.mx.aol.com (imo-r02.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A6837B404 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:32:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from TD790@aol.com by imo-r02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.26.) id y.81.1687a364 (4330); Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:32:01 -0500 (EST) From: TD790@aol.com Message-ID: <81.1687a364.29830cb1@aol.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:32:01 EST Subject: Re: 64-bit PCI mobos To: joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz Cc: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 139 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a message dated 01/24/2002 6:10:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz writes: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:13:18PM -0500, John Von Essen wrote: > > I would recommend the TYAN 2518 with ServerWorks chipset. Supports two > > 64-bit PCI slots, dual Pentium III, 4 Gb RAM, optional Ultra160 SCSI > > onboard. This board works very well with FreeBSD. > > Earlier versions of this motherboard had some reboot problems, at least > with Linux, I believe they have been overcome, partly with a software > patch to it, the newer have a BIOS update (I think). Otherwise, very > nice board. > > Tyan doesnt know how to make stable MBs..they all have power problems (one that we used needed 250W otherwise it would reboot). The Supermicro 370DLE also uses the serverworks chipset and is nicely priced. Note that you cant put a 4 port ethernet card in the first 64bit slot however for reasons beyond the scope of this list.. Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message