From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 9 04:53:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA26479 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 04:53:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from skyserv.med.osd.mil (skyserv.med.osd.mil [199.209.8.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id EAA26471 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 04:53:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rpotts@med.osd.mil) Received: from (ae1970.med.osd.mil [161.14.168.22]) by skyserv.med.osd.mil (8.6.8.1/SCA-6.6) with SMTP id HAA11231 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 07:53:42 -0400 From: "Ross Potts" Message-Id: <9710090753.ZM7967@unknown.zmail.host> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 07:53:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sean Eric Fagan "Assembling new machine" (Oct 8, 5:48pm) References: <199710090048.RAA11124@kithrup.com> X-Mailer: ZM-Win (3.2.1 11Sep94) To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assembling new machine Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I'd also consider, I think, getting an EIDE drive (1-2GBytes) for root and >usr, and using the SCSI drive for /var/users and /usr/src. (I will be >using, incidently, a 1GByte Fujitsu drive for my news disk -- this >particular drive is currently in use in kithrup for just that purpose.) You can do that? I thought that if you tried to mix drive types, the eide would just take over. HHMMmnnnn! -- UNIX Rules!!! Ross Potts Internet : Ross.Potts@med.osd.mil EDS-D/SIDDOMS Phone : (703) 824-7601 Skyline Two, Suite 1200 Beeper : 5203 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041