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From: couch-jt@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Justin Couch)
Subject: Re: Which motherboard to buy? Bogus PLATO BIOS and IRQ sharing
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Hugh LaMaster (lamaster@viking.arc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: Are there any known problems with either the 
: Mylex or ASUS SiS-chipset-based Pentium mboards?  
: Is anyone running one of these boards with a 100 MHz
: Pentium?  
: Do these boards work OK with the Buslogic 946C?

: [Still searching for a hardware combination known to work
: with "many" of the usual free operating systems.]

Yep. Actually it is running a P90 overclocked to 100MHz on the ASUS m/b. As
for SCSI stuff I am using the SC200 (NCR53c810) on it connected to a quantum
empire 2100s and sony 2x CDROM. Linux has not missed a beat yet (and about
to try slowlaris on it).

Justin