Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:45:52 +600 CDT From: "Larry Dolinar" <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PC configuration advice wanted. Message-ID: <5500BBB14F0@bldg1.croute.com>
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Thus spake "Doug S." <serges@umr.edu> (Wed, 27 Sep 1995): | | | > 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. IDE is limited to 2 devices, EIDE 4. AFAIK, it also adds overhead to the CPU, as do non-busmastering SCSI cards. Support for the CD-ROMs is only now appearing in this OS, and it's questionable whether there will ever be support for IDE-style tape drives (such as there are). Go with busmastering SCSI or SCSI-2 (7 devices), or Fast Wide SCSI-2 (15 devices), and you'll have more flexibility in the long run: hard drives, scanners, tape... my $.02, larry
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