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From: dhayes@switcheng.mci.com (David Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: PCI chipsets for FreeBSD?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 22:14:37 GMT
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I am trying to build a FreeBSD box with a PCI bus.
Early this spring I found, and subsequently lost, a detailed text
explaining the virtues and drawbacks of a variety of motherboard PCI
chipsets. I think it had mostly to do with OS/2, but there was a note
that said the same stuff worked under FreeBSD. It was specific enough
to distinguish between different mask revision levels for the Intel
PCI chipsets, and included instructions on how to use MS-DOS DEBUG to
determine this information.
Now of course, I can't find this information anywhere, and I'm finally
ready to buy.
H E L P !!!!
My wife is demanding that I stop using her computer, and I don't want
to put money into a second one without knowing what really works and
what doesn't.
Can someone please point me to this stuff?
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