Re: Motherboard Recommendation
Francisco Valladolid wrote: Abit A8XV Pro work fine. I assume you intended to say Abit A8VX Pro. It's a minor nit, until you type it into Google. ;-) On 10/11/05, Simon Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm interested in building a machine for use as an OpenBSD workstation and would appreciate any recommendations on AMD64 motherboards that are well supported. I assume there are people on this list using OpenBSD as their primary OS and would be interested to hear what you're using. This would be a damned sight easier if manufacturers didn't insist on including everything but the kitchen sink on-board and failing to document which chipsets they're using. Can you even buy desktop motherboards that don't come with on-board sound and network these days? Any advice is appreciated. Simon -- Half Moon tonight. (At least it's better than no Moon at all.) -- --- BSD - Unix simplicity. Francisco Valladolid Hdez. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboard Recommendation
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:25:59PM -0500, Francisco Valladolid wrote: Abit A8XV Pro work fine. Thanks to everyone for their recommendations. I've had 3 for the A8V series of motherboards so I went and bought one. Although the installation boots fine, when it comes time to copy files across I get a bunch of: cd0(atapiscsi0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x28 SENSE KEY: Hardware Error ASC/ASCQ: ASC 0x08 ASCQ 0x03 errors. I don't suppose anybody has any ideas? I'm assuming it's not the IDE chipset which only leaves the drive itself which has worked perfectly in all other situations. -- A mathematician named Hall Has a hexahedronical ball, And the cube of its weight Times his pecker's, plus eight Is his phone number -- give him a call.
Re: Motherboard Recommendation
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 10:11:08AM +0100, Simon Morgan wrote: cd0(atapiscsi0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x28 SENSE KEY: Hardware Error ASC/ASCQ: ASC 0x08 ASCQ 0x03 Fixed by switching normal IDE cable for 80-conductor Ultra DMA cable. -- Weinberg's Principle: An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Re: Motherboard Recommendation
Abit A8XV Pro work fine. On 10/11/05, Simon Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm interested in building a machine for use as an OpenBSD workstation and would appreciate any recommendations on AMD64 motherboards that are well supported. I assume there are people on this list using OpenBSD as their primary OS and would be interested to hear what you're using. This would be a damned sight easier if manufacturers didn't insist on including everything but the kitchen sink on-board and failing to document which chipsets they're using. Can you even buy desktop motherboards that don't come with on-board sound and network these days? Any advice is appreciated. Simon -- Half Moon tonight. (At least it's better than no Moon at all.) -- --- BSD - Unix simplicity. Francisco Valladolid Hdez. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboard Recommendation
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:09:41PM +0100, the unit calling itself Simon Morgan wrote: Hi, I'm interested in building a machine for use as an OpenBSD workstation and would appreciate any recommendations on AMD64 motherboards that are well supported. I assume there are people on this list using OpenBSD as their primary OS and would be interested to hear what you're using. I've had good luck with Tyan. This would be a damned sight easier if manufacturers didn't insist on including everything but the kitchen sink on-board and failing to document which chipsets they're using. Can you even buy desktop motherboards that don't come with on-board sound and network these days? Any advice is appreciated. Certainly without sound, and I'm sure there are a few w/o networking... but they tend to be the low-end products that don't offer good value. I think the reason for higher integration is that it makes the board more versatile (I may want to put this in a 1U enclosure don't want to or can't add PCI cards, risers, etc). All of these peripheral features can be disabled via jumpers if you prefer to use your own brand via PCI card. Jay
