Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 18:37:49 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Peter Philipp <philipp@globalserve.net> Cc: Jeremy Domingue <jer@hughes.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disgruntled Linux User... questions about FreeBSD Message-ID: <15927.900380269@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:17:54 EDT." <Pine.NEB.4.00.9807132110460.25223-100000@geeklab.globalserve.net>
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> 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. Your comments about the pain of potentially losing an on-board SCSI controller are well taken, but I think perhaps just a bit too shy over the line of "appropriate conservatism" to really support. The fact remains that these types of motherboards have their place, and they have their place for several reasons. First, for many people the PCI slot is a very scarce and valuable resource, each and every slot saved making the difference between either deploying a FreeBSD machine in a certain scenario or having to use some other solution. This is especially true for motherboards like the Intel Providence, which supplies on-board 7880 and Intel Etherexpress Pro 100B - saving 2 full PCI slots. Second, the number of actual failures in the field simply does not support such a level of paranoia - I've seen motherboards fail for all sorts of reasons and have yet to have that reason be an on-board SCSI controller. Even if I did encounter such a scenario, it would hardly be the end of the world - I'd simply disable the thing and stick a 2940 in there until I had a chance to either replace the MB or simply decide to leave things that way. With Intel Providence motherboards now going for $89 (or, with 2 CPUS, for $300) on the street, I can *afford* to lose the on-board SCSI or ethernet. :-) In short, I simply do not agree with your suggestion that such boards should be avoided and the FreeBSD Project would certainly lose several very useful machines if we suddenly adopted that kind of hard-line stance. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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