Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:42:21 From: "Aaron Hill" <hillaa@hotmail.com> To: Bertrand.BAROTH@reda.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq Message-ID: <F60RVvd5X00lfepHjon00006325@hotmail.com>
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>Can I install Free BSD on my Compaq Deskpro XL 5120 bought september 95 ? Not sure about your exact model but I've been running 3.4-RELEASE on a Deskpro XL 590 since 3.4 was released. It's been running a fairly well used web and FTP intranet site without issue. I've been running with 1 x 1.? GB IDE drive (boot), 2 x 3GB SCSI drives, 1 x SCSI 4mm DAT, 1 x IDE CD-ROM. I did use the onboard ethernet card for a while but went to a 100Mb/s PCI card to get higher speed from the machine. Personally I've never liked those floppy controller based tape drives but I can't see how that would be causing your SCSI timeout problems. I'd recommend you check the SCSI termination and ensure you're running the latest Compaq BIOS (from 20 May 1998)... http://www5.compaq.com/support/files/desktops/us/download/1140.html ... and based on my experience it should be all plain sailing with FreeBSD. Drop me a line directly if you need any further information. Good Luck Aaron Hill _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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