Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 11:00:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: john@zyqad.co.uk (John Richards) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <199508110900.LAA22630@blaise.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <9508110800.AA02408@zyqad.co.uk> from "John Richards" at Aug 11, 95 09:00:06 am
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> 1. Is it possible to have a mixed IDE & SCSI system?
Without problem. You cannot boot directly from the IDE drives unless
you install OS-BS or similar program on the IDE.
> 2. Any recommendations on SCSI adapter? Buslogic looking favourite at the
> moment on price #155.
VLB Buslogic are nice and fast card. You may want to look at the Adaptec
28xx which are good too.
> 3. Will any SCSI CDROM drive work with any SCSI adapter or are certain
> combinations better/worse than others?
That's the beauty of SCSI. Any CD-ROM should work.
> 4. Will any SCSI disk drive work with any SCSI adapter?
Same answer.
> 5. For 1GB disk would 2*500MB disks be preferable to 1*1GB? Could then
> configure 2 swap partitions.
It is always better to have more than one disk :-) You can have multiple
swap slices o course.
> 6. In a mixed IDE/SCSI system (assumes answer to 1 is yes) can the boot manager
> handle booting from the SCSI drive if one of the IDEs is the default boot?
With a proper MBR made by Booteasy or OS-BS yes.
> I'll upgrade the processor at a later date and put in more memory then.
It is a must. The more memory you have the better. 8 MB is short if
you intend to run X11.
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #5: Fri Jul 14 12:28:04 MET DST 1995
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