>From a friend of mine who works for adaptec commenting on the various
stability of PCI motherboards.  He says that he would only buy an intel
mb given whats hes seen recently.  (No idea if this covers *new* stuff
like the asus XP mb).

>*  I've heard of problems with all OPTI chipsets. (we had NT stability
>	problems in general with this one)
>*  SIS has some problem with DMA (I believe a timing problem)
>*  ASUS doesn't properly configure PCI peripherals (I don't know the
>	specifics, but we had to implement a fix in our drivers)
>*  None of the Intel based BIOSes appear to be able to deal with
>	F-code, which is part of the PCI spec.
>
(whats F-code anyhow?)

>purchase either an Intel Plato motherboard or an Intel Zappa
>I have heard of some problems with the latter.  couldn't get an Adaptec 3940
>to work on it at all, yet the 2940 worked fine.  The 3940 is basically just
>two 2940 SCSI cards connected by a PCI-PCI bridge chip for RAID operation.
>Many BIOSes don't properly support PCI-PCI bridging.