From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 5 21:08:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA16882 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 21:08:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA16862 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 21:08:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA01281; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:33:32 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199711060503.PAA01281@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Wes Peters cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), nellie@home.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Nov 1997 21:45:21 PDT." <199711060445.VAA23332@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 15:33:32 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What about other current 875 controllers? Promise appear to have one. > > > If you're really putting together a system for FreeBSD, remember to > spend your money in the important areas. First, throw out the IDE > interface, don't even think about using it. (I do, but only on *other* > people's machines. This one doesn't even have an IDE controller in it.) This advice is *seriously* outdated, especially in the light of the current performance of 3.x systems. We are using IDE on 2.2 boxes with excellent results as well, and to suggest that people should never consider IDE is completely wrong. SCSI shines for heavily-loaded disk systems, particularly when concurrency is an issue. If, OTOH, your're building a workstation the cost savings from going IDE over SCSI will let you double your disk space. mike