Update my hardware section. Still waiting for more "Picks" configurations,

folks!  Am I to be the only hardware blow-hard in here? :-)

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+<!-- $Id: hw.sgml,v 1.12 1996/01/31 14:26:08 mpp Exp $ -->
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@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ Slippery when wet.  Beware of dog.
     therefore want to wait for Intel's newest generation of motherboards
     based on the Orion chipset or investigate ASUS's SiS chipset based
     motherboard, the <htmlurl url="http://asustek.asus.com.tw/FTP/ASUS/Info/Spec/pi-p55sp4.txt" name="P55SP4">.  I have no personal experience with this
-    motherboard, but have heard good things about it and will note that it
-    has the advantage of being available <em>now</em>.
-
+    motherboard and have heard mixed reports - some say it's a fine MB, others
+    say that it's measurably slower than the Triton.  The only undisputed
+    advantage it offers is being available <em>now</em>. 
 
   <sect2><heading>Disk Controllers</heading>
     <p>This one is a bit trickier, and while I used to recommend the
@@ -73,17 +73,15 @@ Slippery when wet.  Beware of dog.
     unilaterally for everything from ISA to PCI, now I tend to lean
     towards the <htmlurl url="http://www.adaptec.com" name="Adaptec">
     1542CF for ISA, Buslogic Bt747c for EISA and Adaptec 2940 for PCI.
-    I've currently heard nothing about Buslogic's new Bt-930 controller
-    but would welcome any reports on its performance.
 
   <sect2><heading>Disk drives</heading>
     <p>In this particular game of Russian roulette, I'll make few specific
     recommendations except to say "SCSI over IDE whenever you can afford it."
     Even in small desktop configurations, SCSI often makes more sense since it
-    allows you to migrate drives from server to desktop as falling drive
+    allows you to easily migrate drives from server to desktop as falling drive
     prices make it economical to do so.  If you have more than one machine
     to administer then think of it not simply as storage, think of it as a
-    food chain.
+    food chain!
 
     <p>I do not currently see SCSI WIDE drives as a necessary expense unless
     you're putting together an NFS or NEWS server that will be doing a lot
@@ -95,8 +93,8 @@ Slippery when wet.  Beware of dog.
     can heartily recommend the <htmlurl url="http://www.matrox.com/"
     name="Matrox"> <htmlurl url="http://www.matrox.com/mgaweb/brochure.htm"
     name="Millenium"> card.  If free X servers are more to your
-    liking, you certainly can't go wrong with one of <htmlurl url="http://www.nine.com/" name="Number 9's"> cards.  Their S3 Vision 868 and 968 based cards 
-    (the 9FX series) are no slouches either, and are supported by
+    liking, you certainly can't go wrong with one of <htmlurl url="http://www.nine.com/" name="Number 9's"> cards - their S3 Vision 868 and 968 based cards 
+    (the 9FX series) are pretty fast cards as well, and are supported by
     <htmlurl url="http://www.xfree86.org" name="XFree86">'s S3 server.
 
   <sect2><heading>Monitors</heading>
@@ -117,6 +115,7 @@ Slippery when wet.  Beware of dog.
     chip and other cards using it, such as the Zynx ZX342 or DEC DE435,
     will generally work as well.
 
+   <sect2><heading>Serial</heading>
     <p>If you're looking for high-speed serial networking solutions, then
     <htmlurl url="http://www.digiboard.com/" name="Digi International">
     makes the <htmlurl url="http://www.digiboard.com/prodprofiles/profiles-prices/arnetprofiles/sync570i.html" name="SYNC 570i"> series, with drivers now in
@@ -124,6 +123,17 @@ Slippery when wet.  Beware of dog.
     name="Emerging Technologies"> also manufactures a board with T1/E1
     capabilities, using software they provide.
 
+    <p>Multiport card options are somewhat more numerous, though it has to be
+    said that FreeBSD's support for <htmlurl url="http://www.cyclades.com/"
+    name="Cyclades">'s products is probably the tightest, primarily as a result
+    of that company's committment to making sure that we are adequately supplied
+    with evaluation boards and technical specs.  I've heard that the Cyclom-16Ye
+    offers the best price/performance, though I've not checked the prices lately.
+    Other multiport cards I've heard good things about are the BOCA and AST
+    cards, and <htmlurl url="http://www.stallion.com/" name="Stallion
+    Technologies"> apparently offers an unofficial driver for their 
+    cards at <htmlurl url="ftp://ftp.stallion.com/unsupported/freebsd/stallbsd-0.0.2.tar.gz" name="this"> location.
+
    <sect2><heading>Audio</heading>
     <p>I currently use the <htmlurl url="http://www.gravis.com/" name="Gravis">
     Ultrasound MAX due to its high sound quality and full-duplex audio
@@ -132,6 +142,15 @@ Slippery when wet.  Beware of dog.
     all-around card for a machine that will be running both FreeBSD and NT
     or OS/2.  In such a scenario, I might recommend the <htmlurl url="http://www.creaf.com/" name="Creative Labs"> AWE32 instead.
 
+   <sect2><heading>Video</heading>
+   <p>For video capture, there's really only once choice - the
+   <htmlurl url="http://www.matrox.com/" name="Matrox">
+   <htmlurl url="http://www.matrox.com/imgweb/meteor.htm" name="Meteor">
+   card.  FreeBSD also supports the older video spigot card from
+   Creative Labs, but those are getting somewhat difficult to find
+   and the Meteor is a more current generation frame-grabber with
+   a higher-speed PCI interface.  I use one for broadcasting video
+   on the MBONE and it works quite well!
 
 <sect><heading>Core/Processing<label id="hw:core"></heading>