From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Oct 4 17:37:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25972 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25961 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:37:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smp@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost.StevesCafe.com [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA17049; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 18:36:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199810050036.SAA17049@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 From: Steve Passe To: vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu (Kevin Van Maren) cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Subject: Re: hw platform Q - what's a good smp choice these days? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 12:40:32 MDT." <199810041840.MAA08710@fast.cs.utah.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 18:36:39 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, > > Don't cheap-out on SCSI, its only about $120 more for u2w capability: > > > > ASUS P2B-D Dual Pentium II AGP ATX Motherboard $299 > > ASUS P2B-DS Pentium II AGP ATX Motherboard $419 > > > > Much cheaper than adding a card later... I've really become a fan of the > > Asus P2B-DS, I can do a "make -j12 buildworld" in about 40 minutes (3 > > spindles on u2w cheetahs). > > If you are going to multiple disks and have the money, SCSI is the > way to go. But IDE disks are so much less! For a single drive, > the new IDE DMA driver does as well as SCSI. I agree with this point, but I think of SCSI as much more than a disk controller. I typically hang a jaz or zip drive off it, plus a SCSI DAT tape for backup, or possibly a scanner, or a CD-ROM drive, or ... -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message