Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 13:13:50 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net, isp@FreeBSD.org, chad@gaianet.net, johnnyu@accessus.net, mario1@PrimeNet.Com Subject: Re: /usr/obj size Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.95.961106131233.4315w-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199611061540.JAA08616@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > > Adaptec is your Very Expensive Good Friend. > > > > Yeah, you pay a premium for a Adaptec. > > > > > http://www.adaptec.com/raid/aha3985.html > > > > > > Note: this is basically three 2940's and some extra logic that might allow > > > it to do hardware parity calculations. Ignoring the RAID stuff means that > > > it should be possible to use it as a three channel SCSI controller, > > > occupying a single slot. > > > > > > Or go for a PCI board with 5 PCI slots. > > > > Hmmm, even with a PCI board with 5 PCI slots, you would need one > > for ethernet card as well as a video card so you still have only 3 left. > > Why in the world would you need a PCI video card? Good question but sometimes it's the only machine you have :-) > I am a VGA house myself, mainly because I have a rack of machines, one VGA > monitor on the rack, and a wandering VGA cable for the infrequent times I > need to get at a machine's console.... but an 8 or 16 bit ISA VGA card > with 256KB is more than sufficient for a server. > > One of my clients is big into mono cards and mono monitors, they have the > redeeming quality that you can leave them on 24/7 and not be too saddened > when a monitor dies because they are so easy to come by used. > > You don't really need workstation speed graphics on a server class machine. I know what you mean... Sometimes space is the issue and the machine would need to be used as a workstation as well. Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin
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