Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:08:23 -0700 From: The Clark Family <Clark@open.org> To: Andrew <mynet@uq.net.au>, Mark Bannar-Martin <mbannar-martin@pearson-college.uwc.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual CPU hardware Newbie question Message-ID: <4.0.1.19990729211506.00ef28e0@opengovt.open.org> In-Reply-To: <37A002E6.2E9D4AF7@uq.net.au> References: <379E5A43.BA1A7423@pearson-college.uwc.ca>
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1. Does anyone have an idea when/if FreeBSD is going to support the BP6's UDMA-66 IDE interface? (My nomenclature is almost assuredly wrong.) 2. Had anyone tried the Western Digital 7200rpm UDMA-66 drives with FreeBSD? 3. Are dual Celerons fully supported by FreeBSD? Thanks, [RC] At 05:29 PM 7/29/99 +1000, Andrew wrote: >Probably the best and most innovative reasonably priced dual cpu Mb on the >market would have to be the Abit BP6. >http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/bp6.htm > >Using this MB you could run dual Celeron 466's or even 400's >and still have plenty of money to spend on HDD's. > >As for the HDD's if you have a VERY busy file server with >lots of concurrent reading and writing then SCSI is the fastest >and most reliable. For most applications though IDE can be just >as good and allot cheaper. If you do go IDE however make sure >you choose good quality IDE drives from makers such as IBM. > >Also with ide drives its often a good idea to get a cheap large ide >drive as a backup drive. One such drive is the Quantum CX 18 gig. > >Im not sure what you consider a "small network" but you would probably >find a celeron 366 with 128meg of ram and a good hard drive MORE >than sufficient for your needs. If you wanted to you could spend the extra >money on a backup machine. > >There is no point at all going to a P2 or P3 as they are not really any >faster and much more expensive. Another good choice is the AMD K6 series. > >Cheers > >Andrew > >Mark Bannar-Martin wrote: > >> I have searched the lists but I did not find a satisfactory posting for >> the following question: >> >> I am looking to purchase a dual cpu machine to run FreeBSD. I have only >> used 2.2.8 so far but I like it. I want to spend at most $2000. I am not >> interested in graphics and want to use this machine as a Samba server >> for a small workgroup of Win9x machines. >> >> Any hardware recommendations would be much appreciated as would the best >> FreeBSD release to use for rock solid platform. >> Perhaps the most important decisions for me are: >> 1. Single or dual CPU >> 2. IDE or SCSI hard drive >> >> Thank you, >> Mark. >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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