Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 18:25:46 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: davidc@pdd.3com.com (David Clear) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PC configuration advice wanted. Message-ID: <199509290855.SAA24157@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <14871.9509280853@isolan.pdd.3com.com> from "David Clear" at Sep 28, 95 09:53:51 am
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David Clear stands accused of saying: > Specifically: > + Which has the better support in FreeBSD, AHA-2940 > or NCR-58C10. I will be using SCSI disk, tape and CDROM. Both are very well supported. The 2940 is more expensive, but handles heavy loads (multiple SCSI controllers, access to multiple devices) somewhat better. On a system such as yours, the difference is not likely to be terribly significant (a few percent) > + Which is the 'safer' motherboard, Zappa or Endeavour? I > understand that Zappa doesn't support burst mode cache. As > long as I get the P90 performance I expect then that doesn't > matter. What I'd like is a reliability assessment. Rod Grimes would be the person to ask there; here in Oz we don't see much of the Intel hardware on the ground. > Dave. > > * I may have got my numbers in a twist... Yah, it's a 53C810. No sweat. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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