Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 02:10:50 -0700 From: David Filo <filo@yahoo.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Ideal hardware config for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199507170910.CAA16517@lobo.yahoo.com>
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Hi, I would appreciate suggestions on what people feel is the best hardware setup to run FreeBSD for highest performance. Mainly I'm interested in which SCSI and Ethernet cards to use. Currently we're using Buslogic 946C and 3Com 3c509 cards along with an ASUS P54TP4 motherboard and a Pentium 100. The Buslogic card is currently giving us problems because it's not being recognized as a PCI device (instead it shows up as an async ISA device). I've seen this problem discussed in the archives but didn't see any solutions. Only solution I have is to use an older version of the Buslogic firmware. That is, we have problems with version 4.25J while version 4.23 seems to work fine. Which SCSI card is generally thought to give the best performance? As for Ethernet, we aren't having any problems with the 3Com card. Just wondering if there is a better solution, like the 3Com 3c590 for example assuming it's supported. So in general any info on how to construct a high performance FreeBSD box would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.. David Filo
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