From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 13 17:56:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19646 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 17:56:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from geeklab.globalserve.net ([209.90.144.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19619; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 17:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philipp@globalserve.net) Received: from localhost (philipp@localhost) by geeklab.globalserve.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA18012; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:17:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: geeklab.globalserve.net: philipp owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:17:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Philipp To: Jeremy Domingue cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disgruntled Linux User... questions about FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <009501bdae88$70e84f20$6e2f87d0@ws-47-110.selectaswitch.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Jeremy Domingue wrote: > 3) Is anyone using SMP on FreeBSD with an Adaptec 7880 on-board SCSI > controller? Linux people keep telling me that this is not a good > configuration for Linux... how about for FreeBSD? Where I work we have a dual PII with built in SCSI controller. In my opinion this was a bad buy, but that's the process of "gaining experience" I guess. First off look at what a built in SCSI can do to you... Imagine yourself in a scenario where it's a sunday morning and the built in adapter somehow dies. Not only do you have to replace the motherboard but you'll be looking all over town for a place that sells these dual cpu motherboards. It's much easier to find a place with an external scsi adapter, and you'll be off after replacing it (or if you're smart you'll have a spare scsi card lying around somewhere, and just replace the broken one...would you have a spare motherboard lying around for the price it is?).. I don't think we use the built in scsi on the box at all...it's just too much pain fiddling with it. I'd stay away from it. Hope that helps... Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message