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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: BSDI 1.1, P5, and all that
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Organization: St. Peter's College, US
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:25:51 GMT
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In article <53krff$fmh@chip.klic.rain.com>, keithl@chip.klic.rain.com (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
> Unfortunately, this board is the only 5 ISA slot Pentium motherboard
> still in production, besides the QUICKTECH built-in-SCSI motherboard. If
> you are considering upgrading your systems from 486's and want to keep
> your old boards and configuration, buy some of the last VTIs or pressure
> TYAN to fix their BIOS.
The Tyan boards run fine if you run 'em with modern controllers - I have
a 96MB P133 Tomcat running BSD/OS 2.1 using a BT-946C, and I've also got
a 128MB P166 Tomcat running with BT-946, -948, and -958D controllers and
a variety of disks. As I said when I previously responded to your post, I
have found that ISA Adaptec boards don't work very well in the Rev 4 Tom-
cats, but as modern controllers are relatively inexpensive and much better
performers than the ISA ones, I see no reason to spend excessive amounts of
time trying to get the ISA ones to work.
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
+1 201 915 9381 (voice) +1 201 435-3662 (FAX)