From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 14:47:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA06142 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:47:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from send1b.yahoomail.com (send1b.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA06119 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:46:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgireyev@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19971222224629.6947.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Received: from [156.153.255.218] by send1b; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:46:29 PST Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:46:29 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev Subject: Re: new server To: Shawn Ramsey , questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Shawn, if you are putting together a FreeBSD based news server take a look at the archives, in -hackers mailing list, for `Joe Greco news server' He has done a fair amount of work, in the last couple of years, coming up with a good setup for a system so it's a must read for you. Some of the hilites are using as many SCSI adapters as the motherboard will acomodate instead of the UW. Also, using smaller hard disks around 2Gig (no bigger than 4Gig). There is also file system hints and many many more useful ideas he himself used and to gain maximum performance out of. Rudy ---Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > I am pricing a together a news server for the company I work for.. and I > need to know what is the best supported UW scsi card for FreeBSD? > > Also, has anyone used Quantim Viking UW drives? How good, fast , > reliable are they? > > Thanks... > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com