Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:25:15 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: Andres.Vega_Garcia@sophia.inria.fr (Andres Vega Garcia) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advise on Hardware configuration Message-ID: <199612050055.LAA18609@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199612041844.TAA22203@fun.inria.fr> from Andres Vega Garcia at "Dec 4, 96 07:44:12 pm"
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Andres Vega Garcia stands accused of saying: > the choice, but my interest is in FreeBSD, do you have any comments > on the hardware listed below? Always 8) > - -Ethernet : ProSum Proexpert-PCI 10Base-T (with option to change to > 10-100 B-T) You'll need to find out what sort of card this really is; with any luck it's based on a Digital DC21x4x chip, in which case it'll be a winner. If they say it's "NE2000" compatible, throw it away. > - -Sound card : Sound Blaster 16 PNP. Ick. PnP may be trouble, but I can't be too sure about that. > - -CDROM : Pionner DRA-10X ATAPI . Why an ATAPI CDrom in a SCSI system? Get a SCSI CDrom if at all possible, even if you end up with an 8x instead of a 10x, the performance improvement provided by the SCSI interface is worth it. > -Andres -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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