Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:52:15 -0400 From: Troy Landers <tdl@widomaker.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Cc: tdl@widomaker.com Subject: EIDE CDROM, Motherboard & USB questions... Message-ID: <31C8060F.5DE8@widomaker.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi all, I am upgrading an old 386/33 system that is struggling to run FreeBSD now, to something that will perform respectably well. I have a few questions regarding the hardware I am about to purchase. ( I posted the first question earlier this week but was not subscribed to the freebsd-questions mailing list. :( Please if you responded to the earlier queston could you Email me a copy directly, I missed any responses, Thanks! -Troy- [ tdl@widomaker.com ] ) 1)... I am about to purchase an IDE 8x CDROM drive. I have some concerns using it with FreeBSD, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to avoid the additional cost of a SCSI version of the same drive and that of a SCSI controller card, at the same time I don't want to spend less money on something that is known _not_ to work. Is anyone using an E-IDE 8x CDROM with FreeBSD?, if so what brand? Had any problems? I have seen statements such as "All non-SCSI cards are known to be extremely slow compared to SCSI drives.", does this include the EIDE controller built into most new motherboards? & is this still true? is there nothing I can do to get the performance I should expect? Also is the statement "ATAPI compatible IDE CD-ROMs (should be considered experimental)", still true? I thought I saw something about a new driver or something that integrates IDE CDROM's with FreeBSD or did I mis-understand something? 2)... I am also about to purchase a Tyan Tomcat II motherboard and run FreeBSD on it. If anyone out there has one of these have you had any problems? I plan to run with only one CPU at first, cost constraints, you know :( , it has been mentioned to me that these dual CPU boards might use two different CPU's, a master and a slave, I have not found anything that says the two CPU's are different, can anyone shed some light on this? and to both CPU's have to be the same speed? 3)... Also, is there FreeBSD support for the Universal Serial Bus (USB), or are there plans to support USB? I am trying to decide if I should wait on the new version, the Tyan Tomcat II+ that will have USB built in. Any feedback will be appreciated! Thanks in advance, -Troy- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Troy D. Landes Email: tdl@widomaker.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?31C8060F.5DE8>