Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:31:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Peter Philipp <philipp@globalserve.net>, Jeremy Domingue <jer@hughes.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disgruntled Linux User... questions about FreeBSD Message-ID: <199807141531.LAA14435@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <15927.900380269@time.cdrom.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.00.9807132110460.25223-100000@geeklab.globalserve.net> <15927.900380269@time.cdrom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
<<On Mon, 13 Jul 1998 18:37:49 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> said: > 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. And similarly, we've been really happy with our Intel Buckeye motherboards -- the only problems that we've had came from the VAR who put them together (and the UPS drivers who dropped them en route from Arizona). Never had one of the SCSI controllers fail, nor the hot-swap backplane. (Just wish those Seacrate WC disks weren't so much more expensive than standard Ws...) The last lot of servers we bought were Intel Balboas with the on-board Adaptec plus an add-in 2940 to drive a second SCSI bus. > 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. Thankfully, PC hardware in this case being actually reasonable for a change, we couldn't do this even if we wanted to. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199807141531.LAA14435>