From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 22 13:47:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7061560E for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:47:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@mercury.jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jeff@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA03468; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:46:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:46:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeff Lynch Reply-To: Jeff Lynch To: Mitch Vincent Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quad processor motherboard? In-Reply-To: <018701bed480$bcc3bf00$0200000a@windows.cygone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Mitch Vincent wrote: > So the controllers actually function? Hopefully I can find some that are > Ultra 2 SCSI, but that doesn't really matter.. If one integrated Adaptec > card works under Fbsd, then most should I guess.. Someone told me the > opposite a while ago though.. I remember there were probs with the drivers but it's been too long in computer years to remember what it was, but I think it affected all 78xx chips not just integrated. > > The reason for all the processor power isn't know to me right now, I just > had someone ask me to get prices on the machine and to make sure it would > function with FreeBSD.. That sure is a hell of a lot eh' :-) Definately bottlenecks at I/O way before that much CPU can be put to use in any purely ISP related activity, a well answered FAQ. > With these U2-SCSI Drives he wants, the RAM and everything, it's going to be > a huge machine.. Nice and expensive too. Heh, someone probably wants to preserve their budget for next year. Don't spend it this year, harder to ask for it next year :) --jeff ============================================================================ Jeffrey A. Lynch | JORSM Internet, Regional Internet Services email: jeff@jorsm.com | 7 Area Codes in Chicagoland and NW Indiana Voice: (219)322-2180 | 100Mbps+ Connectivity, 56K-DS3, V.90, ISDN Autoresponse: info@jorsm.com | Quality Service, Affordable Prices http://www.jorsm.com | Serving Gov, Biz, Indivds Since 1995 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message