From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 2 11:29:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18033 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:29:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA17957 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:28:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA09224; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:28:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:28:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dominic Fisk cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Compatibility In-Reply-To: <35235288.5492A51@nwpeople.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Dominic Fisk wrote: > I am currently using 2.2.2-RELEASE on a Intel Pentium 120 based machine > at work. I will be upgrading soon to a Pentium 2 based machine. > I have a few compatibility questions. > > What version of BSD work with the following :- A IBM 6 gig Ultra > IDE disk drive It will, but you are going to hate it. 2.2.x won't use the UltraDMA features of the drive. > A diamond 2.8MB AGP Permedia graphics card (WIll Xfree support this ?) I honestly don't know. > Intels onboard sound (I think Sound blaster compatible) Maybe. > A 32 speed Toshiba ATAPI cdrom Seriously, spend the money for SCSI. If you're spending money on the box another couple hundred isn't going to break you. Get an Adaptec 2940 or Symbios 53c875 based card (like the Diamond FirePort 40) with an UltraWide SCSI drive. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message