From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 14:16:35 2005 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 C408016A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:16:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA7E43D31 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:16:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95DDF60D8 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:16:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 93577-07 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:16:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A169160F3 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:16:30 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <424028D5.4050008@makeworld.com> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:16:53 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050313) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050321095647.R83831@makeworld.com> <1907678552.20050322101315@wanadoo.fr> <1111486000.751.221.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <1181508865.20050322114009@wanadoo.fr> <1111490108.751.252.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <626456216.20050322123909@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <626456216.20050322123909@wanadoo.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic Subject: Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:16:35 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Peter Risdon writes: > > >>You _are_ trying to run a version of FreeBSD equivalent to 2003/XP. > > > No, I'm just running FreeBSD 5.3. It has nothing to do with Windows. > > >>Because you were making comparisons with an 8 y.o. version of Windows. >>Because it might be the case that you also have to run an 8 y.o. version >>of Windows. > > > That is your guess. > > Personally, I decided not to guess, so I actually looked it up on > Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility List for Windows 2000. My machine is > still there. See > > ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/services/whql/hcl/win2000hcl.txt > > and look for the HP Vectra XU 6/200 PPro (2p). > > >>Because your hardware is 8 years old. Obvious, obvious, >>obvious. > > > Uh-huh. See above. Care to try again? ... and as of June 2005, MS retires 2000 - at least thats the projected date. You have to know and realize this. In addition, if you went back to NT - you would also know you are on your own being that MS stopped support about a year ago. It's really very simple. Get 2 SCSI drives that are alike, that will most likely halt your issies. If you doubt that - pick up ANY Server+ or A+ book. Hell - search Google and see what diff SCSI drives and diff speeds will do to. The answer is so plain, it's so simple - yet, you refuse to consider the obvious - you give a doubting Thomas a bad name. -- Best regards, Chris You may know where the market is going, but you can't possibly know where it's going after that.