From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 10 01:03:07 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA10443 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 01:03:07 -0800 Received: from ns.dknet.dk (root@ns.dknet.dk [193.88.44.42]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA10434 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 01:02:56 -0800 Received: from login.dknet.dk by ns.dknet.dk with SMTP id AA29589 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:02:40 +0100 Received: by login.dknet.dk (4.1/SMI-4.1DKnet00) id AA15801; Fri, 10 Mar 95 10:01:45 +0100 From: sos@login.dknet.dk (S|ren Schmidt) Message-Id: <9503100901.AA15801@login.dknet.dk> Subject: Re: What type of hard drive to buy? To: kleung@frodi.cs.uop.edu (Tiggie) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95 10:01:45 MET Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: ; from "Tiggie" at Mar 10, 95 12:46 am X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I am new to the FreeBSD area. I am currently thinking of purchasing a > hard drive to devote completely to FreeBSD. > > Will FreeBSD 2.1 be having support for EIDE? Right now, I can't decide > on what type of hard drive to buy for my system. Currently my setup is: Maybe, I'm currently hacking away on a ATA/ATAPI driver, mostly to support IDE CDROM's but I'd like to do the disks also (if time permits). > I was thinking about purchasing one of the following: > > Quantum Empire 1080 meg SCSI-2 HD (IMP1080S) > Quantum Capella 1108 meg SCSI-2 HD (VP32210S) > Western Digital 1080 meg EIDE HD (WDAC31000) I would *definitively* go with a SCSI drive, having looked at the ide/e-ide specs you really *dont* want an ide/e-ide drive !! > Would anyone have any ideas on how their performance would be like in the -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@login.dknet.dk) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time ..