From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 29 14:24:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27DDE37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550EC44013 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:24:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from ren (ren [207.195.92.131]) by ren.sasknow.com (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h5TLOIDO078646; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:24:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:24:18 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: esayer1@san.rr.com In-Reply-To: <000001c33e82$18fa6700$1d02a8c0@kids> Message-ID: <20030629151637.T76262-100000@ren.sasknow.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New hard drive (was: "") X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:24:20 -0000 [Tip: Your message did not contain a subject. Choose an appropriate subject line for your questions in the future, please ] esayer1@san.rr.com wrote to questions@freebsd.org: > FreeBSD- > If i buy a UATA133 Bare Hard Drive, do i have to buy a disk controller. Not likely, unless you're on really old or really obscure hardware. Anything newer than the second-generation Pentium-I should have an on-board dual-channel IDE controller built in. If you are using fairly old hardware, though, beware that several Pentium-I BIOSes can not support drives over 8GB, although if it was a good motherboard at the time, your vendor may have published an upgrade. These are getting hard to find, though. If your hardware is much newer than that, I don't think you'll have much to worry about. > If i have to and i buy a PCI one does in connect to the hard drive via > jumpers 40- or 80-pin ribbon cable, yes. Jumpers on the drive control the mode of the drive (slave, master/single drive, cable select). Assuming your motherboard has an on-board controller, you'd connect the drive directly to the motherboard. > or does the mother board just connect it to the hard drive. Also is > there any compadibility issues with certain hard drives as far as SCSI > and IDE go, like which type of disk controller you have to use. And > if i have to buy one which protocol do you reccommend, and what is a > good compadible controller for FreeBSD?E-mail me back SCSI is very expensive, and requires more experience to set up. SCSI is suitable for more high-end applications. It sounds like you're just getting your feet wet with this stuff, so I hope you aren't strapped with the responsibility of building a heavy production server. Thus, I'd recommend you go with IDE, for cost and simplicity. Hope this helps, - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901-1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-244-7037 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America