Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:08:22 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: "'Jordan K. Hubbard'" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Peter Philipp <philipp@globalserve.net> Cc: Jeremy Domingue <jer@hughes.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Disgruntled Linux User... questions about FreeBSD Message-ID: <E40CBF0361C7D111914000C0F0303D108664@OCTOPUS>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Jordan K. Hubbard [mailto:jkh@time.cdrom.com] > 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. :-) To back this point up, it's often cheaper to replace a motherboard than it is to replace the SCSI controller (based on the fact that the onboard SCSI is usually adaptec and their kits ain't cheap). If downtime is not your main concern (since replacing a motherboard is going to take longer) then they are a very economical buy. If downtime is your concern then there are more appropriate ways of ensuring your service stays up than going for a motherboard without an onboard controller. Even in this case, a redundant SCSI card only uses up one slot, whereas a redundant card would otherwise use up a second slot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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