From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 06:59:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C5516A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:59:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C360043FA3 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:59:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from b_cassidy@bellsouth.net) Received: from bellsouth.net ([68.214.80.19]) by imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.netSMTP <20031120145929.UXV6696.imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net@bellsouth.net> for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:59:29 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:04:15 -0600 From: Bryan Cassidy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20031120100415.5ef7a6a2.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <00dd01c3af4a$fafcfb70$1100a8c0@dtg17> References: <20031120073308.73227.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com> <00dd01c3af4a$fafcfb70$1100a8c0@dtg17> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:59:31 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Here's the current setup that I have came up with. I think I would be pretty happy with it as long as I don't have any problems in FreeBSD. If I have problems I want them to beable to be fixed ya know? Antec PLUSVIEW1000AMG Chassis AMD Tyan S2466 (Supports 2 AMD Athlon MP Processesors) http://www.microdirect.co.uk/companypages/products/motherboards/tyan/mottyas2466/mottyas2466.htm 2 AMD Athlon MP 2400+ processors TURBO-COOL 510 ATX/ATX12V Power Supply from PC Power and Cooling 2 - 4 1GB Crucial DDR PC2100 Registered ECC Memory sticks Promise FastTrak TX2000 RAID Controller 2 Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 120GB (EIDE,Ultra ATA/100, 7200RPM) Can't find a a 10,000 RPM one from Western Digital that is IDE, has that much GBs. GeForce4 Ti-4600 Vid Card GENERIC Floppy drive - don't really care who this comes from. Lite On LTC-48161H Black 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive Write Speed: 48X CD-R,24X CD-RW Read Speed: 48X CD-ROM,16X DVD-ROM Interface: ATAPI/E-IDE Buffer: 2MB Diamond DT-688 3D PCI 5.1 Sound Card Live Theater(6 Channel version) Found this sound card on pricewatch for $8.00.. On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:45:06 -0000 "Simon Gray" wrote: > > >> Take a look a ABIT's motherboard, some of them are really good. > > > > I had a very bad experience with an ABIT motherboard. When FreeBSD > > started, it saw three NICs instead of one; when it tried to initialize > > one, it wiped the field-upgradeable BIOS. The machine wouldn't even POST. > > I destroyed two boards this way; fortunately the vendor (who doesn't have > > a FreeBSD support person) gave me a break on the Gigabit that I replaced > > it with. There's a FreeBSD trouble ticket on this; I can hunt the number > > down if you like. But I would recommend avoiding putting ABIT and FreeBSD > > together unless you have support for the combo, or a report that that > exact > > motherboard works with FreeBSD. The Gigabit, BTW, has run like a champ. > > > I've got an abit be6-II with p3-866 512meg, running 5.0 never crashed on me > once, not had a single problem with it under fbsd - Rock solid. > > >> Finnally(sic) if you can afford it scsi is diffenetly(sic) better than > ide, > >> but > >> I'm sure most people will think that is over kill. > > >IDE drives can be flakey(sic) on their DMA support. I'm using an IBM > Deskstar > >as a rotating backup and it hung the FreeBSD device probe on discovery. > >I have it set to use PIO, which sucks the CPU up through a firehose. I'm > >running on a set of three 10,000 RPM IBM SCSI Ultrastars that I bought > right > >after Hitachi bought IBM's drive business and before the disk price rose > >again. They run hot; I have them in a mounting cage salvaged from an old > >machine, with space between them and between them and the side of the cage, > >set right in front of the 120 mm inlet-side case fan. In this > configuration, > >they have run like champs, lightning fast and no noisier than the fans. > > > Subsequently in that same machine I've got 2x IBM deskstar's (20gig 60gxp's) > running on a promise tx pro2 as raid-0 (at udma100) again without any > problems > > I think it depends on your mother board chipset, but both my intel (bx) and > via (kt266) have run in dma without any problems under 4.x and 5.x. > > Scsi is definatly the way forward (if you can justify the cost) it handles > more concurrent connections better, plus the lower seek time makes quite > a bit of difference. > > I only fit deskstars in my machines - they've been good to me over the > years. > They do run hot, ensure the 'air hole' isn't covered up and that they've got > decent air flow around them. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/vOX/jnOL7dYm/EQRArnMAJ4mSm7Q4V4gD8nty+lxH1D8hjdI1gCg4UMV 0c4ElK85aLlNRICcpUEE8j0= =xLrU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----