Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 20:23:16 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Go SCSI! Big improvement... Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960218150253.26624B-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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Just wanted to mention that I finally upgraded my box at home to SCSI.. The main thing that was holding me back before was that I needed to replace my VLB IDE card with a plain old ISA one because you can only have 2 VLB cards on a motherboard, not three (thanks to Joerg for pointing this out!). Now I've got a Quantum Lightning 730MB SCSI in there, and the performance difference is quite noticable. Interestingly, I ran Winbench 96 under NT before and after, and the DiskMark was only 10K/sec faster, but both 16 and 32-bit CPUMarks had shot up almost 9% (must be less CPU load during paging)... I just installed FreeBSD on the new SCSI drive and it's working pretty good, but unfortunately I've been in NT too much to get all of my Unix files transferred over from the IDE partition (because I wanted to "clean house" while I was doing it).. However, lest you all think I've totally gone over to the "dark side" I've got a FreeBSD box set up at my university, and we're trying to get a partnership with some CIS (computer information systems) majors to get another FreeBSD box on the Web. Internet serving is one area where I can NOT in good faith recommend either NT or Linux, but wholeheartedly will recommend FreeBSD! Also, I've been learning MFC and Visual C++ (that's why I've been in NT so much) with the specific goal of porting FreeBSD programs over to Win32, so I'll post my progress on that as time goes by. Keep on hacking! ---Jake
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