From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 26 7:19: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB522152EC for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 07:19:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id HAA77855 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 07:19:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 07:19:01 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199907261419.HAA77855@pau-amma.whistle.com> Subject: Re: First time for my own PC hardware Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:42:33 -0700 (PDT) >From: rick hamell [Sorry about delay; was in a seminar for Thursday & Friday, and had some non-work-related things to do over the weekend. (One of these was the annual BayLISA picnic; this year, we tried an install-fest, as well. Didn't seem to gather much interest; perhaps scheduling in conflict with the Garlic Festival in Gilroy wasn't ideal.) dhw] > The ATX Specs specify the brass standoffs instead of the old >plastic snap in ones. :) Makes sense to ground the board -- or so I'd think. >> (I did note, though, that the cables supplied with the motherboard were >> one floppy cable & one IDE cable... even though the motherboard has 2 >> IDE controllers. I thought it would be a good idea to make the CD the >> master for the secondary IDE, so it doesn't slow down access to the >> disk. Maybe I'll try picking up another cable, along with the adapter, >> tonight.) > It is a good idea. Usually (If you don't buy an OEM CDROM,) the >second IDE cable you need is included with it. Well, the used machine that I bought to become a firewall/NAT box had a CD drive it that seemed quite servicable, so I swapped it into the box I'm building for my wife. (The firewall doesn't need a CD drive.) Seems odd that a cable would be with the CD drive, but not a disk drive. Puzzlements. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message