From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 7 08:27:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA25391 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:27:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [199.166.238.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA25385 Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:27:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.7.1/8.7.1) id LAA03014; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:27:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:27:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: John Beukema , FreeBSD hackers , FreeBSD ISP Group Subject: Re: newsserver configuration In-Reply-To: <2799.818336421@critter.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > A client is about to set up a news server for an ISP and proposes the > > following: > > > > > > 1. Intel triton P5 mother board w/256k cache built in IDE & I/O port > use asus. > Have to agree...I've used both, and the ASUS was more plug-n-play then its Intel counter-part...I was trying to play with Buslogic PCI SCSI controllers at the time, and, with the Intel, I had to actually fight with the cards, whereas with the ASUS, I plugged them in a booted... Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, soon to be: | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc