Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story
Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to be configured. :( Ad that to the new BIOS that won't allow keyboardless reboots :( These came in a RED box. Nicole On 09-Jun-00 Wilko Bulte wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:54:28PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon and FreeBSD. And obviously which mom boards to prefer or keep away from. Anybody using the Abit KA7? If yes, do you like it? I appreciate the KA7 PCI/ISA combo slot instead of the useless AMR thingy Asys has on their praised K7V (mind you, I like Asus as such, excellent experiences with them over the years). W/ -- Wilko Bulte FreeBSD, the power to serve http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ __ /| (`\ http://www.unixgirl.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | o_o |__ ) ) http://www.dangermouse.org/ // \\ ---(((---(((- -- Powered by Coka-Cola and FreeBSD -- -- Strong enough for a man - But made for a Woman -- -- OWNED? MS: Who's Been In/Virused Your Computer Today? -- --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story
Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to be configured. :( Try putting "SCSI" above anything else in the "boot order" menu. I've been trying for some time now to work out how these stupid menus are sorted, and how they determine what constitutes "SCSI" as opposed to eg. an int19 device. I fear that it's not very deterministic. 8( Ad that to the new BIOS that won't allow keyboardless reboots :( Bitch to ASUS about this, I guess. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story
"Nicole Harrington." wrote: Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to be configured. :( That may be as well due to the bugs in Mylex soft. I have used different Mylex cards on a few occasions (the last one was testing SCSI drivers for my employer) and _always_ had some problems with them. Sometimes upgrading the Mylex drivers and/or configuration utility helps, sometimes does not. I hate Mylex terribly and would strongly recommend staying as far away from Mylex as possible. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story
"Nicole Harrington." wrote: Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to be configured. :( That may be as well due to the bugs in Mylex soft. In this case, that's not correct. Or at least, if it is, Adaptec, AMI, ICP Vortex, Compaq, IBM, Symbios and just about every other vendor of add-in cards with boot vector interests have a similar set of bugs. I have used different Mylex cards on a few occasions (the last one was testing SCSI drivers for my employer) and _always_ had some problems with them. Sometimes upgrading the Mylex drivers and/or configuration utility helps, sometimes does not. I hate Mylex terribly and would strongly recommend staying as far away from Mylex as possible. I have a lot of Mylex hardware around here (obviously enough), and I can't say their stuff is any worse than anyone else's. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story
Mike Smith wrote: "Nicole Harrington." wrote: Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to be configured. :( That may be as well due to the bugs in Mylex soft. In this case, that's not correct. Or at least, if it is, Adaptec, AMI, ICP Vortex, Compaq, IBM, Symbios and just about every other vendor of add-in cards with boot vector interests have a similar set of bugs. Then I was wrong. Sorry. Just I have seen too much problems with the Mylex configuration utility which tends to hang at various places to suspect it first. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
