Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:01:03 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: billy@idiom.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Question Message-ID: <199903120501.WAA29377@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903111949330.18694-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> from "unknown@riverstyx.net" at "Mar 11, 1999 7:59:53 pm"
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unknown@riverstyx.net wrote... > Well, I've used the Asus P2L97-S (I think... the PII board that only goes > up to 300) and it worked beautifully. I used both the UW port and the > narrow, and had no problems, with a heavy amount of disk activity (heavily > loaded web server). That was a 7880 based SCSI controller though, and > I've never worked with a 7890 so far except on a Diamond Fireport 40 that > gave me nothing but trouble. Umm, the Diamond Fireport 40 has an NCR/Symbios/LSI 875 on board. The 7890 is an Adaptec chip. They're two completely different vendors, two completely different chips and two completely different drivers. > On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Billy Thompson wrote: > > > This is the system I'm thinking of getting. I've heard from on person who > > had a bad experience with Asus' on-board SCSI controller. I was wondering > > if any of you have had any problems with this mainboard or any of the > > other parts. I do intend to use the onboard controller unless there are > > problems with that. > > > > ASUS P2B-S w/Adaptec AIC 7890 & 3860 80MB/s UtraWide SCSI Controller > > Intel Celeron 400 Mhz 66Mhz/128K > > 128 MB SDRAM PC100, 16x64 > > Toshiba 32X IDE CBDROM The P2B-S should work okay. Justin (Gibbs, the guy who writes the Adaptec driver) has one. The 7890 is fully supported in FreeBSD 3.0 and 3.1. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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