Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:36:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: count@key.hole.fi (Bror 'Count' Heinola) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium Pro question Message-ID: <199607012136.OAA24714@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199607012057.XAA06284@key.hole.fi> from Bror 'Count' Heinola at "Jul 1, 96 11:57:11 pm"
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> Rodney W. Grimes taisi sanoa: > > > > If you go P6RP4 make darn sure that you have the B0 or later chipset, > > anything before that will fail misserably with the 100Mbs ethernet > > card. > > Thank you, I'll call them tomorrow and ask some more about > their boards. > > Would it be reasonable to go with a Pentium 166 and Triton-II > board instead of an early Orion, given the tasks the computer > is supposed to be doing? ie. heavy on I/O, not much CPU required. The ASUS PCI/I-P55T2P4 boards equiped with a 133 or 166 MHz CPU make outstanding NFS servers for 100Mbs networks, a Pentium PRO would be overkill, so yes, IMHO it would reasonable. > > I wish I had more data on the Natoma chipset, but that only comes with > > time. > > Yeah, information usually becomes available after it's been > obsolete for a while. Not obsolete, just in production for at least 90 days. Serious bugs usually show up right away (Orion based boards had only been shipping for a few weeks before the 4.4MB/s problem was found). Subtle bugs can take a long time to show up, and often only effect very specific applications (ASUS PCI/I-P55TP4N ignore the NMI signal on the ISA bus, I have only known 1 person to ever run into that bug, and that was after I had been shipping those boards for 4 months). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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