From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 21 12: 7:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.203.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6962915412 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:07:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from localhost (bri@localhost) by adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00288; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:06:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian X-Sender: bri@adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net To: The Clark Family Cc: Andrew , Mark Bannar-Martin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual CPU hardware Newbie question In-Reply-To: <4.0.1.19990729211506.00ef28e0@opengovt.open.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message