Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:54:07 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Essenz Consulting <john@essenz.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 840 Chipset Discontinue Message-ID: <200007212154.OAA01169@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:31:58 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007211224450.66348-100000@athena.lightningone.net>
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> I was told by several of my distributors that all motherboards based off > of the Intel 840 chipset are being discontinued. That means the Supermicro > PIIDM3 and PIIIDME, and any other 840 board. I have mixed feelings about this, but on the whole I think it's probably for the best. I've had really patchy results with the i840, and performance hasn't been impressive. > Supermicro has two new boards, 370DL3 and 370DLE. Identical in specs to > the 840 boards, but using some kind of "ServerWork LE" chipset. However, I > have also been hearing bad news about these boards as well. We've had some issues with the RCC chipsets in Dell systems, yes. > Has anyone worked with these boards? Supermicro SAYS that they work fine > under Linux and Solaris. However, one of my distributors says thay they > are extremely touchy when it comes to memory. Only Registered PC133 ECC > memory will work. > > If someone at freebsd.org wants to seriously test these boards, let me > know, and I'll donate one. Without the 840 boards, server configs are now > back to the 440GX days! FreeBSD Test Labs would very much appreciate the opportunity to beat one of these boards up in the name of science. If you don't have a better taker, you can send us one at: FreeBSD Test Labs BSDi Open Source Solutions 4041 Pike Lane #F Concord, CA 94520 Thanks for the offer! -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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