From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 8 15:20:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA29807 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 15:20:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA29761 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 15:19:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id SAA00360; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 18:18:34 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711082318.SAA00360@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: hardware In-Reply-To: <19971108225215.ZD56214@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 8, 97 10:52:15 pm" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 18:18:34 -0500 (EST) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch said: > > This awfully looks like a much better success rate than IDE, where you > often have to live with the surprise that two (out of two possible) > disk drives of different vendors can't work together on a single bus. > I have literally NEVER had a problem with IDE. (Except cable problems.) However, I have been careful not to mix/match manufacturers. Again, I am not religiously pro or against SCSI or IDE. I have had problems with HP drives also. I have heard of problems running the latest Buslogic SCSI interfaces also (they don't work on FreeBSD, without a new driver.) It is all how you look at the troubles with the respective interfaces. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com