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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any Experience w/ Triton II (430HX) MBoards & FreeBSD? Date: 5 Jun 1996 06:44:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4p3abi$pcr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4p25hs$8ku@nntp5.u.washington.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu (William R. Somsky) wrote: > I've been watching comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, but haven't heard much > about whether anyone has tried any of the new Triton II (430HX) > based motherboards w/ FreeBSD. I'm posting it from exactly such a machine, and i'm absolutely happy with it. (I've upgraded from a 3-year old rock-solid but slow 486/33 EISA mainboard. I've never seen any hardware failure i could blame to the boards during the last years, neither with the EISA nor now with the Tr*ton-II.) > I'm going to be ordering a new system for running FreeBSD (and DOS/Win > games :-) and am wondering whether I should go with a known stable > motherboard (such as the ASUS P55TP4N) and give up all memory checking, Several versions of the P55TP4N are known to use the rather broken UMC 8669F, btw. > or try one of the newer 430HX based motherboards (such as the ASUS P55T2P4 > or Tyan Tomcat I) and be able to do ECC on my RAM. (No arguments about > whether parity/ECC is worth it or not, please. I'd like it to be _my_ > choice whether to use parity/ECC or not, rather than Intel's...) I've read a couple of postings here that the Tyan board caused troubles for FreeBSD. Mine is an ASUS P55T2P4. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)