From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 06:28:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA00451 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 06:28:54 -0700 Received: from umr.edu (hermes.cc.umr.edu [131.151.1.68]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA00446 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 06:28:47 -0700 Received: from nero.uucp (dialup-pkr-1-11.network.umr.edu [131.151.253.12]) via SMTP by hermes.cc.umr.edu (8.6.12/E.3.12) id IAA11480; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:28:43 -0500 Received: by nero.uucp (Smail3.1.29.0 #2) id m0sxwPA-0004N0C; Wed, 27 Sep 95 08:20 CDT Message-Id: From: "Doug S." Subject: Re: PC configuration advice wanted. To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:20:08 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509271150.VAA19879@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Sep 27, 95 09:20:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 950 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > David Clear stands accused of saying: > > I'm very close to buying what Gateway here in the UK call a > > a "P5-90 Premium Multimedia". This has: > > > > P90 Processor > > 16MB EDO RAM > > 1Gb EIDE disk > > DO NOT BUY IDE DISK! Especially with the rest of this config; IDE disk > (and so little of it) would be a Really Bad Idea. Okay, so why is this such a "Really Bad Idea". Opinions aside. Does FBSD have trouble with EIDE configurations? SCSI is nice, but its margin over EIDE isnt all that big. This is my opinion, anyway. Serge. > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[ > >