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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: reason not to buy SIS P5-90 MB for *BSD?
Date: 22 Nov 1994 16:11:56 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: rcarter@netcom.com's message of Tue, 22 Nov 1994 03:03:27 GMT
In article <rcarterCznF5r.MMr@netcom.com> rcarter@netcom.com (Russell Carter) writes:
I'm buying a Free/Net BSD system, pci-scsi-enet. Anybody have any horrors
about trying to boot *BSD on an SIS chipset P5-90 board? (I don't want
to have another "opti experience")
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.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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