From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Nov 5 11:17:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F3214BE9 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:17:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from postal.sr.hp.com (root@postal.sr.hp.com [15.4.46.173]) by palrel3.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id LAA20789; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:17:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com (root@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by postal.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id LAA18734; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:17:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id LAA27152; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:16:50 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199911051916.LAA27152@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Adam Strohl Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Nov 1999 13:54:53 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 11:16:49 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Adam Strohl wrote: > I Agree totaly with this, disk is THE choke point for make world for my > SMP system, must ... resist .. urge ... to ... buy ... SCSI ... hardware. > :) Are you using softupdates and DMA? While SCSI is great, you really need multiple drives to take full advantage of SCSI. With your typical 1- or 2-drive system, IDE drives shouldn't be significantly slower than SCSI. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message