[SunRescue] OT: dual PPro mb's...

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, March 30, 2001 at 10:30:19 (-0500), Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] OT: dual PPro mb's...
>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > I've heard rumours too, but the same go for almost any clone board.
> >
> > For example modern ASUS boards are trash.
> 
> Really?  I know the P2B models were rock solid, and I bought
> my mother a K7V.  I was very impressed with it and we haven't
> had problems....

Yup, really.  At least the batches that have been shipping to Canada.
All my colleagues are starting to say the same thing....

> They even included the header for the extra USB ports.  So many
> manufacturers put the pins on the board but you'd never be able
> to find the part that hooks to it =)

If you're building a real server then get a real server board, such as
one of the Intel server boards.  Complete documentation, including
interrupt routing, etc. is all freely available.  Not only that but they
have serial console support in the BIOS!  ;-)

Of course then there's IBM.  My PC-325 server has a full PCI-EIDE
controller on the motherboard, but only for the floppy.  There are no
headers for the IDE channels!  Imagine my surprise after telling a
client to install an IDE drive in one of his machines and he asked me
where it should connect....  :-)  I knew the controller was in there
because the driver probed it just fine and reported dual channels!

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