From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 7 13:22:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from saruman.xwin.net (saruman.xwin.net [205.219.158.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CC537B41B; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:22:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dp@localhost) by saruman.xwin.net (8.11.4/8.9.1) with ESMTP id fB7LN6M13190; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:23:06 -0600 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:23:06 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Halliday X-X-Sender: To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Subject: Re: strange.. In-Reply-To: <20011207120403.B82602@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:18:59PM -0600, Paul Halliday wrote: > > Just trying to clean up my disks a bit so I ran make clean in /usr/ports. > > Yeah I have installed a few packages, but it has been running since last > > night prolly ~20hrs so far. > > > > Seems odd. > > > > PC164 500mhz, 264MB ram. > > ad0: 6149MB [13328/15/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 > > ad1: 2014MB [4092/16/63] at ata0-slave WDMA2 > > For 8GB of storage, I really would just go eBay a SCSI controller and > matching 9GB disk. This would run you about $80. If you do want to do > this, provide eBay item numbers for the SCSI controllers you are > considering and I'll check them out to make sure they'd work for you. > For a PC164 you want a Qlogic 1040 or 1020; or almost any NCR/Symbios/LSI > controller. The relevancy I was looking for, thanks. And while I have your attention, and due to your reply, your familiarlarity with the PC164 I offer one more question. Graphics Card. Yes I have looked at existing media as to what card this machine will support but most of them are kinda out in right feild. There is an s3 virge in it right now. I swapped it from my as200 which isn't really that picky about video cards. Anyway, I am getting mad feedback issues. Initially I thought it was the surrounding monitors but I am still getting some distortion. Either a flaky card or a poorly supported one. Any suggestions on a decent card? The machine is running X+wmaker or gnome when the port is fixed and I ultimately want to use it as a graphics box. Anything you can offer helps. thanks. Paul H. "Don't underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups" ___________________ http://dp.penix.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message