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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!news.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: reason not to buy SIS P5-90 MB for *BSD? Date: 23 Nov 1994 00:21:31 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3au1ub$pg4@news.cc.utah.edu> References: <rcarterCznF5r.MMr@netcom.com> <MICHAELV.94Nov22101157@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <MICHAELV.94Nov22101157@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: ] This doesn't answer your question exactly, but... I have an SiS ] chipset on my Nice Super-EISA 486 motherboard, and it works ] exceptionally well. I can even use the cache in write-back mode with ] my EISA bus-mastering SCSI controller (bt747s), although I did have to ] disable parity checking to do so. I'd never heard of SiS before, but ] the EISA chipset in my 486 motherboard seems to work quite well. I ] don't know if this extends to PCI and/or Pentiums, however. I've used SiS chipset boards happily for years (although it used to be the time on the boot prompt was too short on them -- they have the fastest gate A20 I've ever seen). Why did you have to disable parity checking? If you got errors otherwise, I'd suggest toning down the bus-on time for the controller instead. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.