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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.jmls.edu!chi-news.cic.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!werecat From: werecat@netcom.com (WereCat) Subject: Re: Motherboard Suggestions? Message-ID: <werecatDnHt2F.CJC@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960227025857.29171A-100000@ouray.cudenver.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:44:38 GMT Lines: 17 Sender: werecat@netcom16.netcom.com Some time ago sdknittl@ouray.cudenver.edu wrote: > Can anyone suggest a motherboard (Intel Asus, Intel Atlantis, Intel > Endeavor, Intel Zappa, Cyrix 586mb) that will be best for bsdi? I'm > looking for fast motherborad without overkill (does bsdi use all of the > features of an Atlantis or a Pentium pro on a Asus?) The Intel Zappa motherboards do not support parity checking. The BSDI 2.1 manual reccomends against motherboards without parity checking. We are currently having problems that we think are caused by flakey memory chips, but we can't really be sure because we have a Zappa motherboard. We are going to have to swap out the external cache and 64Mb of memory to try and determine the problem. I am not a happy camper. (Does Intel have *any* forethought?) --Trenton -- End Prohibition Now!