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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Asus or Octek motherboard? Date: 23 Jun 1996 20:12:27 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4qk8fb$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qijbv$fn4@news.hk.olivetti.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E raju@rssd.hk.olivetti.com (Raju M. Daryanani) wrote: > Both are Triton II boards. Anyone tryied running FreeBSD on either one? I'm running the ASUS T-2 board, and i'm really happy with it. (Besides that it is so fast that i can't really play XBoing anymore with it. :-)) I'm using it along with the rather cheap SC-200 NCR SCSI controller. The T-2 does support parity or even ECC memory. Despite of the reported 10...15 % memory speed loss when using ECC, i picked this route. After all, my previous board was a SiS chipset EISA board with a 486/33, which served me for three years. Neither that one nor its successor have caused me any serious hardware faults. You can get a lot of crappy hardware in the PC area, but you can also find excellent and well-working pieces if you don't think you always have to pick the cheapest offering. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)