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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!merlin!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!sugar.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: peter@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Orchid F1280 versus Bustek 747 Re: FreeBSD system Date: 30 Apr 1994 17:38:09 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2pumkh$ghp@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <4902@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> <5O+tb8n.dysonj@delphi.com> <CotA5p.30u@pegasus.com> <michaelv.767306547@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sugar.neosoft.com In article <michaelv.767306547@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote: > So, definitely go VLB if you don't have EISA/PCI. But if you're in > the market for a new motherboard, seriously look at EISA or PCI > boards. I've ordered a new system, EISA+VLB. The VLB device I'm using is a Fahrenheit 1280 VLB video card. The rest of the cards are ISA or EISA. The MB is a 486/66 DX2 with 16MB, a 1.8GB SCSI drive, and a Toshiba 3401 CDROM drive. (I hope I have all the numbers right... they keep switching things around on me) Now the screwdriver shop is trying to tell me I need to get an ATI VGA Wonder card instead of the 1280 because it conflicts with the Bustek 747. I've run into systems with weird conflicts before and it's often turned out to be the result of a motherboard problem. I'm not willing to take delivery on any system without knowing *what* the problem is, really. The symptom is that it doesn't boot up at all with those two cards in the machine. If PCI is that much better and not significantly more I might want to go with a PCI bus and a PCI video card. I don't see that DMA buys you that much with video, and I think a VLB video card is going to be a lot faster than an EISA one, so for now I think this is the best way to go. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Ja' abracas-te o teu lobo, hoje? 'U` Looks like UNIX, Feels like UNIX, works like MVS -- IBM advertisement.