From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 6 13:14:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA26213 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 13:14:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA26204 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 13:14:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA05808; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 13:13:53 -0800 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 13:13:50 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny To: Joe Greco cc: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net, isp@FreeBSD.org, chad@gaianet.net, johnnyu@accessus.net, mario1@PrimeNet.Com Subject: Re: /usr/obj size In-Reply-To: <199611061540.JAA08616@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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