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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 13:40:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Beaudoin, Jean-Marc" <Beaudoin.Jean-Marc@hydro.qc.ca>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: About HDD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505133942.25528I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c=CA%a=_%p=HQ%l=MSXVPTI01-980504200158Z-19493@msxsmtp01.vpi.hydro.qc.ca>

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On Mon, 4 May 1998, Beaudoin, Jean-Marc wrote:

> We just bought Freebsd 2.2.6 from Walnut Creek and are now evaluating
> the require hardware to build our FreeBSD computer.
> 
> We have a small NT machine that runs with a Quantum Fireball 4,3 Gb
> Ultra ATA interface with <9,5ms seek time and 256k of cache that works
> very nicely and considering buying the same thing for our FreeBSD
> machine.
> 
> As the Supported Hardware specifies IDE and EIDE drives, we just want to
> make sure that this one will work before buying.

Steer clear of Promise IDE controlles, and SCSI would be a good idea if
this is going to be a server.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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