From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 10:23:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17696 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 10:23:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17688 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 10:23:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11031; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:22:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from proot) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199901071822.MAA11031@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Compaq Opinions ... In-Reply-To: from The Hermit Hacker at "Jan 7, 99 02:04:03 pm" To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:22:47 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, The Hermit Hacker said: > > Over the years, most of what I hear about them in terms of Unix has > appeared bad. A pain to configure, etc... > > My preference has been, and still is, systems built up from ASUS > motherboards and things *I* consider to be "tried and true" hardware (ie. > Adaptec SCSI controllers).. > > Anyone have any opinions on Compaq, positive and negative, that they are > willing to make? Am I wrong? Is Compaq *worth* the cost difference? I've got 2 Compaq DeskPro 2000's running Stable. They've been FreeBSD machines since 2.1.0. For the most part, they work pretty well. I've got 2940UW in both, one boots from it the other has IDE as well. One has 64 meg the other 32 meg. Some of the problems: 1) No matter what, you have to build a specific kernel to handel meg over 16. Compaq's BIOS doesn't report memory right. 2) One of them can't reboot without a power off. I also have an IBM Intellistation Z Pro that has the same problem. I know there have been some others over the years, but they slip my mind. Oh, cache didn't seem to work right. I couldn't make buildworld before that was fixed up to not hammer cache so much. Personally, I'd rather have something else. I like the Intellistation's. And some Dell's we have (not running Unix) look good from a fit and finish perspective. -- @@ @@@@ @ @@@@ @@ @@@@ @@ @@ @@ @@@@ @ @@ @@@@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@@@@ @@@@@@ @@@@ @@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@ @@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@ SHIN, spirit-mind. (Japanese) @@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message