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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!news.sol.net!uniserve!van-bc!news.rmii.com!newsjunkie.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!unix.sri.com!news.Stanford.EDU!microunity!usenet From: deborah@velara.microunity.com (Deborah Gronke Bennett) Subject: Re: Intel Endeavor vs Zappa Motherboards In-Reply-To: Ken Coley's message of Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:12:44 -0800 Message-ID: <oqrawpqhoo.fsf@velara.microunity.com> Sender: deborah@velara.microunity.com Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <3105332C.4909@hybrid.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 23:47:03 GMT Lines: 33 In article <3105332C.4909@hybrid.com> Ken Coley <coley@hybrid.com> writes: Has anyone had any experience with the Endeavor motherboards versus the Zappa motherboards. We are in the process of switching from the Zappa motherboard to the Endeavor in order to get the fourth PCI slot. Anybody had any problems with this motherboard. We are not interested in the built-in sound support. I had a PC with an old neptune-based chipset which I replaced with an Endeavor motherboard 2 weeks ago. I moved the Pentium and memory from the old board to the new. The first cache SIMM I got from my supplier (Hi-Tec) was flakey,but they replaced it. Then the biggest trouble I had was with an old BusLogic BT942 SCSI controller (revision B) which was not sufficiently PCI-compliant to work with the new motherboard. However, I got replacement SCSI controllers from BusLogic (RevE) and then my system came up fine. I haven't stressed the system too much in the last 2 weeks, but it has been running my FreeBSD 2.0.5 installation with no other problems since, and has been rebooted at least a few times. I have an ATI-Mach32 graphics card and an SMC ethernet controller. I have one Barracuda SCSI disk. This is all in a Baby-AT (desktop) form factor. I also don't use the built-in audio - its IRQ number (5) conflicts with one of the ISA cards that I'm debugging using FreeBSD. I just used the CMOS setup to disable the card, and I've had no problems. -- ---------- Deborah Gronke Bennett (WD5HJH) kernel and device drivers engineer deborah@microunity.com (408)-734-8100 MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA