From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 01:34:13 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA03388 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 01:34:13 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA03382 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 01:34:08 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA24157; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 18:25:47 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199509290855.SAA24157@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: PC configuration advice wanted. To: davidc@pdd.3com.com (David Clear) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 18:25:46 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <14871.9509280853@isolan.pdd.3com.com> from "David Clear" at Sep 28, 95 09:53:51 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1268 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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! [[