From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 7 19:14:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA26823 for current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 19:14:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from broon.off.connect.com.au (broon.off.connect.com.au [203.63.69.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA26818 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 19:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from connect.com.au (ggm@localhost) by broon.off.connect.com.au with ESMTP id MAA26959 (8.8.5/IDA-1.6); Mon, 8 Sep 1997 12:11:38 +1000 (EST) To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: Drew Derbyshire , Ollivier Robert , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lousy disk perf. under cpu load (was IDE vs SCSI) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 Sep 1997 18:34:18 MST." <199709080134.SAA09715@MindBender.serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 12:11:33 +1000 Message-ID: <26957.873684693@connect.com.au> From: George Michaelson Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At last some sanity! Nobody doubts that there are specific preferences when you have a blank sheet to purchase. What mattered to me (when I first posted about the DMA issues with the IDE driver) was an *existing* config which was (E)IDE. I am very happy that people think server systems, especially where disk-count is greater than 2 should be on SCSI. I am very happy that people doing reliable or mission-critical spec their machines to use best-practice hardware and software. I am also happy that device driver writers are looking at poor saps like me who have blown this years computer-budget on an unexpected car transmission failure, and can't walk away from their (E)IDE investment for a while longer. FreeBSD *has* to be about the best possible service in the worst imaginable hardware as well as the best possible service in the dream configuration. The exceptions should be as minimal as possible: 386 is the lowest CPU, MCA may be somewhat 'interesting' (Noting a NetBSD project which makes it work) but nobody deliberately makes it non-functional on middle-of-the-road boxen. Otherwise its a rich playground and not UNIX for the masses. cheers -George -- George Michaelson | connect.com.au pty/ltd Email: ggm@connect.com.au | c/o AAPT, Phone: +61 7 3834 9976 | level 8, the Riverside Centre, Fax: +61 7 3834 9908 | 123 Eagle St, Brisbane QLD 4000