http://www.abit-usa.com/english/index.htm
I suggest you view the preceeding URL for info on Abit motherboards. They
have a product line that supports Pentium and AMD with all the modern
chipsets available today for the most part with 4 eide ports(be aware that
the extra ports require another IRQ if your already starved here). The BE6
series of motherboards are slot 1 type for Pentium or celeron processors
only includingthe coppermines series(FC-PPA flipchip orPPGA celeron with
adaptor as well will function). They are based on a 440BX chipset that was
originally designed for 100 Mhz bus only. However Abit retails one board in
the 440BX that is advertised as a 133 Mhz board. In my bios setup for
different processors it does automatically set the settings for the 133
processor line in my BE6 II without going into the custom overclocking
settings Abit was always noted for. If I already had a processor that was
133 though I think I would choose a chipset that was designed for that speed
such as the intel 815 chipset. Personally I would stay away from the 810
chipset though since it seemed extremely slow to me on the few boards I
occasion to encounter. The 440BX chipset however while old by todays
standards was almost too good. Intel and others had one heck of a time
beating it and I feel it is still a good choice for up to 1 Gig pentium III
processors. However you must make sure the bios will go that high. On
abits site when taking note of the processors that each individual board
will run.....don't count that board out if it doesn't support your processor
until after you review the bios flashes available for that board. Although
you should consider availability of a lower speed processor to do the
initial bios flash. Some would say that it would be a poor investment
because it is not upgradable very much at this point. Personally I feel
that is a rather weak argument these days because things are going so fast
that the only true upgrade almost always requires replacing the whole
motherboard to make enough of a change to say you really did an upgrade.
Latest and greatest is not always best because it's likely to be
buggy...just as the boards I'm recommending were to begin with. And I think
its safe to say older reliable chipsets are much more likely to be properly
support by Linux. Another one of Abit's most redeeming qualities is that
their support teams continue to provide upgrades to most Abit motherboards
as much as possible. Sometimes not fast enough...lol...but compared to
other manufactures I personally would place them in the top 4. The other
brands I like are Asus, Microstar, Supermicro, but beware on boards like
Supermicro where processor multiples and bus speeds are set with pin
settings thus limiting upgradeability via a simple bios flash.
Good Luck
Tazmun
----- Original Message -----
From: "OOzy Pal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "tazmun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard
> Does the BE6-II supports 133Mhz Bus?
>
> --- tazmun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You could go with one of Abit's BE6 series......they
> > have a total of 4
> > connectors for EIDE.....the second 2 connectors are
> > an onboard High Point
> > Technologies controller that although it is not true
> > SCSI sets itself up
> > that way.....depending on the board you buy(BE6, BE6
> > II, or BE6 II rev 2
> > with 100 ata and supposedly raid support of some
> > sort) Personally I have
> > used the BE6 II and had no difficulties setting it
> > up in Linux initially.
> > I've never really gotten all that far with Linux yet
> > though so really can't
> > say how well it works out as a long term solution.
> > The SCSI ports are fine
> > for hard drives but I wouldn't run any CD roms with
> > them. For windows base
> > OS's I usually formated and installed the original
> > OSon the regular EIDE
> > interfaces to avoid errors that have been known to
> > occur on the HPT
> > controller interface. Although after recent bios
> > flashes the reliability
> > has gone way up and I did format and install WIN ME
> > directly from the HPT
> > interface. There may be a work around for
> > this....but if you install Linux
> > on a different interface other then you are planning
> > to actually use big
> > problems occur since Linux names drive names
> > differently then Windows and
> > the controller drives start with "hde" instead of
> > "hda". As far as the
> > latest version with supposed RAID support if I
> > remember right it was
> > discussed on this group somewhat that some of Abits
> > motherboards RAID is not
> > true Raid and only works on window based boxes.
> > Whether this causes any
> > other problems if just used with out the
> > raid(assuming it can be switched
> > off somehow) I don't know and I have never had the
> > opportunity to try this
> > latest board of the BE6 series.
> >
> > Tazmun
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pauwel Demeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard
> >
> >
> > > The problem is there are no MB's who have more
> > than 2 IDE-connectors (as
> > far
> > > as I know, so the best is getting an extra card
> > with again two
> > > IDE-connectors on it)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----Original Message Follows----
> > > From: OOzy Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [newbie] A good Motherboard
> > > Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 08:46:50 -0700 (PDT)
> > >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > Anyone knows a good motherboard that works fine
> > with
> > > Linux and has more than two IDEs (because I have 2
> > > hard drives, CD, CDRW, and a zip drive, so I need
> > more
> > > than 2 IDEs)
> > >
> > > OOzy
> > >
> > > =====
> > > Regards,
> > > OOzy
> > >
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