Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:20:08 -0500 (CDT) From: "Doug S." <serges@umr.edu> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PC configuration advice wanted. Message-ID: <m0sxwPA-0004N0C@nero.uucp> In-Reply-To: <199509271150.VAA19879@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Sep 27, 95 09:20:53 pm
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> David Clear stands accused of saying: > > I'm very close to buying what Gateway here in the UK call a > > a "P5-90 Premium Multimedia". This has: > > > > P90 Processor > > 16MB EDO RAM > > 1Gb EIDE disk > > DO NOT BUY IDE DISK! Especially with the rest of this config; IDE disk > (and so little of it) would be a Really Bad Idea. Okay, so why is this such a "Really Bad Idea". Opinions aside. Does FBSD have trouble with EIDE configurations? SCSI is nice, but its margin over EIDE isnt all that big. This is my opinion, anyway. Serge. > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[ > >
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