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From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
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Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine
To: john@zyqad.co.uk (John Richards)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 11:00:41 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <9508110800.AA02408@zyqad.co.uk> from "John Richards" at Aug 11, 95 09:00:06 am
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> 1.  Is it possible to have a mixed IDE & SCSI system?

Without problem. You cannot boot directly from the IDE drives unless
you install OS-BS or similar program on the IDE.

> 2.  Any recommendations on SCSI adapter?  Buslogic looking favourite at the
> moment on price #155.

VLB Buslogic are nice and fast card. You may want to look at the Adaptec
28xx which are good too.

> 3.  Will any SCSI CDROM drive work with any SCSI adapter or are certain
> combinations better/worse than others?

That's the beauty of SCSI. Any CD-ROM should work.

> 4.  Will any SCSI disk drive work with any SCSI adapter?

Same answer.

> 5.  For 1GB disk would 2*500MB disks be preferable to 1*1GB?  Could then
> configure 2 swap partitions.

It is always better to have more than one disk :-) You can have multiple
swap slices o course.

> 6.  In a mixed IDE/SCSI system (assumes answer to 1 is yes) can the boot manager
> handle booting from the SCSI drive if one of the IDEs is the default boot?

With a proper MBR made by Booteasy or OS-BS yes.

> I'll upgrade the processor at a later date and put in more memory then.

It is a must. The more memory you have the better. 8 MB is short if
you intend to run X11.

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
      FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #5: Fri Jul 14 12:28:04 MET DST 1995