I know know this is offtopic, so please forgive my posting.
I still want to have your expertise, which there is a lot of in this list.
I want to buy a Dual BX motherboard. I don't want to spend too much money
and I already have two(!) PCI SCSI adapters, so I'd prefer one without
onboard SCSI.
I want to get a PII-350 in the frist place and add another PII later, when
there's more money in my wallet.
What boards are known to work without problems with Linux? Especially I
don't want to loose too much time getting IRQ sharing and IO-APIC to work.
>From what I read in computer mags, from tomshardware site, from the vendor's
sites, etc., I'd like to go for an ASUS P2B-D. Unfortunately, I could not
find any place where this one is sold. P2B-DS can easily be found, but it
has onboard Adaptec and is too expensive for me. Anybody knows a place,
where I could order a P2B-D?
So, I could go for Gigabyte-6BXD, for MSI-6120 or Tyan Tiger 100. (Of course
there are a lot more DUAL BX boards, but those are easy to get for me.)
The latter two have an AMI BIOS, which was reported to cause some problems,
so I'd prefer Award.
I know almost nothing about the Gigabyte board, because they have their
manuals in a strange .DOC format which StarOffice for Linux couldn't decode
(and even had a Word97 crash at the university).
Nice features for a MoBo would also be the possibility to try a number of
FSB clocks (66/68/75,100/103/112) and an onboard Linux-compatible soundchip,
but these aren't that important.
Any advice?
TIA,
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