On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 20:21:40 GMT, you wrote:

>Mike,

>I have the Supermicro Dual Pentium Pro (DNF) motherboard
>that you mentioned.  It's working great!  I did not install
>NetBSD on my new machine but Linux, FreeBSD, and OS/2 Warp.
>The hardware configuration is as the follow:
>    1. Supermicro DNF motherboard (dual pentium) 1 200 Mhz CPU
>    2. 32 Mbyte 60ns EDO.
>    3. Adaptec 2940UW (OEM for Supermicro) 
>    4. Metrox graphic card.

We also have 3 SNFs (same as DNF but with no support circuitry for the
2nd CPU) with 128MB and 2940UWs hooked to striped dual Seagate 15150Ws
(4.3GB per). One motherboard is still in the box, but the other two have
been running NetBSD in a production environment for about a month with
no problems. They are definitely much faster than P5-166s (an example
compile went from 908 seconds down to under 500 seconds).

As with another respondent, we've noticed that memory write times are
actually *slower* than a P5-166, while read times are twice as fast.

>You may want to buy the DNE model of the motherboard; it's
>newer and it's a BABY size.  DNF is a FULL size motherboard
>.  The only advantage for DNF is that you can fit any full
>length add-on card to it without any problem.

Wish I'd known about the DNE when we got our SNFs. It's a real pain
finding cabinets they can fit into. Does the DNE also have 8 RAM
sockets? Same number of PCI slots (4)?

Laine Stump
Ascend Communications