Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 21:42:20 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Answer to a subjectless question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960405205918.10047A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199604050321.TAA06870@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 4 Apr 1996 owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org wrote: > > questions-digest Thursday, 4 April 1996 Volume 01 : Number 697 > From: "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com> > Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 17:35:54 -0700 > Subject: [none] > > I get to spend some money soon on another FreeBSD server and I would like to > hear comments on what hardware has worked/I should avoid. I am thinking of > using Pentium 133 or 166, 128MB RAM (60 ns. access time, perhaps EDO...) > 256/512K cache, Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI-2 Fast controller, three 2 Gig 7200 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You may want to use -stable for it. > RPM HD's on the SCSI bus (internal) in a big case with LOTS of FANS (gotta > keep them drives happy), and 2 PCI 100/100Mbit ethernet cards. Two 100Mbit ethernet cards? It only makes sense if you want to have a server accessible from two separated (by switches) segments/separate hubs. I haven't heard of anyone routing between two 100Mbit segments with FreeBSD yet and certainly you couldn't do it with your server machine (I have seen figures for FreeBSD to achieve over 73M over 100Mbit Ethernet with a Pentium 100). > > Okay, now for questions: > * What's a good motherboard to go with? What motherboards (and/or chipsets, > BIOS chipsets, etc.) should I avoid like the plague? All the broken ones. I think you should get one having the Triton chipset on it. > * Which 100Mbit ethernet PCI cards work well with FreeBSD? I've hard the > 3Com and SMC boards mentioned. I'll need the 2 cards to work happily side > by side in the same machine. Any cards based on the DEC 21040. I personally have two such cards (made by D-Link) and have seen no problems. > * Which HD's are folks happy with? I've used Seagate's Barracuda's with > success, and I've got 1 Connor 7200RPM that is still happily purring along. > I'd love to hear success stories, horror stories. Let me know specific > hardware to avoid if possible. I have used Fujitsu drives - got three of them in two machines - without any problems. > > Now, I've seen a lot of this stuff on the list before. I am reviewing that > as well. When I'm done, I'll put up a web page summarizing what I've found > and what others have replied to me about and post the URL. Someone > mentioned doing a web page on hard drives like this. Let me know of any web > resources that might help me in my quest. Check out http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/hw.html > > Thanks for any/all comments/suggestions! > > Sincerely, > Aaron Gifford > > - --=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=-- > Aaron D. Gifford InfoWest, 1845 W. Sunset Blvd, St. George, UT 84770 > InfoWest Networking Phone: (801) 674-0165 FAX: (801) 673-9734 > <agifford@infowest.com> Visit InfoWest at: "http://www.infowest.com/" > ICBM: 37.07847 N, 113.57858 W > "Southern Utah's Finest Network Connection" > - --=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=-- > > Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :)
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