*BSD News Article 11091


Return to BSD News archive

Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP
	id AA1242 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:31:54 EST
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tinman.mke.ab.com!tdphette
From: tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461)
Subject: Re: VL local bus based motherboards?
Message-ID: <1993Feb12.164031.15703@tinman2>
Sender: usenet@tinman2 (NetNews server account)
Nntp-Posting-Host: toejam
Organization: Allen-Bradley Co.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
References: <1laf5sINN9n0@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 16:40:31 GMT
Lines: 26

hart@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Colin 't Hart) writes:
: Hi,
: 
: Has anyone had any experience with VL local bus based motherboards?
: Does 386BSD work on these? All the rest of the slots are ISA slots.
: Only video cards are currently available (as far as I know) for the VL
: bus, but HDD controllers are supposed to be coming.
: This would make 386BSD a lot faster with swap space.
: 
: Any problems, suggestions or comments?

A friend of mine put 386BSD on his 486/66Mhz Localbus system.  He has
a 32 bit localbus IDE controler and a 32 bit localbus SVGA board.  The
system is FAST.  The disk goes like a batoutahell and the screen
updates are quick.  No problems with the drive support but we are not
sure about XFree86 and his VGA board.

--
Thad Phetteplace
Network Systems Analyst, Allen-Bradley Co.
Phone: (414)382-4461
Email: tdphette@mke.ab.com

The opinions expressed here are entirely my own and not that of my employer.
I am not a slob, I am simply doing an experiment in domestic entropy!