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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:06:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brian <bri@sonicboom.org>
To:        The Clark Family <Clark@open.org>
Cc:        Andrew <mynet@uq.net.au>, Mark Bannar-Martin <mbannar-martin@pearson-college.uwc.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual CPU hardware Newbie question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908211205150.282-100000@adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.0.1.19990729211506.00ef28e0@opengovt.open.org>

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I am going to try a 7200 rpm quantum udma66 drive tonight, hopefully
that'll go well.

				Bri

On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, The Clark Family wrote:

> 
> 1. Does anyone have an idea when/if FreeBSD is going to support the BP6's
> UDMA-66 IDE interface? (My nomenclature is almost assuredly wrong.)
> 
> 2. Had anyone tried the Western Digital 7200rpm UDMA-66 drives with FreeBSD?
> 
> 3. Are dual Celerons fully supported by FreeBSD?
> 
> Thanks, [RC]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 05:29 PM 7/29/99 +1000, Andrew wrote:
> >Probably the best and most innovative reasonably priced dual cpu Mb on the
> >market would have to be the Abit BP6.
> >http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/bp6.htm
> >
> >Using this MB you could run dual Celeron 466's or even 400's
> >and still have plenty of money to spend on HDD's.
> >
> >As for the HDD's if you have a VERY busy file server with
> >lots of concurrent reading and writing then SCSI is the fastest
> >and most reliable. For most applications though IDE can be just
> >as good and allot cheaper. If you do go IDE however make sure
> >you choose good quality IDE drives from makers such as IBM.
> >
> >Also with ide drives its often a good idea to get a cheap large ide
> >drive as a backup drive. One such drive is the Quantum CX 18 gig.
> >
> >Im not sure what you consider a "small network" but you would probably
> >find a celeron 366 with 128meg of ram and a good hard drive MORE
> >than sufficient for your needs. If you wanted to you could spend the extra
> >money on a backup machine.
> >
> >There is no point at all going to a P2 or P3 as they are not really any
> >faster and much more expensive. Another good choice is the AMD K6 series.
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Andrew
> >
> >Mark Bannar-Martin wrote:
> >
> >> I have searched the lists but I did not find a satisfactory posting for
> >> the following question:
> >>
> >> I am looking to purchase a dual cpu machine to run FreeBSD. I have only
> >> used 2.2.8 so far but I like it. I want to spend at most $2000. I am not
> >> interested in graphics and want to use this machine as a Samba server
> >> for a small workgroup of Win9x machines.
> >>
> >> Any hardware recommendations would be much appreciated as would the best
> >> FreeBSD release to use for rock solid platform.
> >> Perhaps the most important decisions for me are:
> >> 1. Single or dual CPU
> >> 2. IDE or SCSI hard drive
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Mark.
> >>
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