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Subject: Re: hardware compatibility
To: hubert@joule.physics.uottawa.ca
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:52:27 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <339EB0B8.13D0@physics.uottawa.ca> from Sylvain Hubert at "Jun 11, 97 10:05:44 am"
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In a previous message, Sylvain Hubert said:
> Hi! 
> 	I am presently a grad student at the university of Ottawa (Canada) in
> physics. We are planning to setup an array of Pentium-pro for parallel
> programming running FreeBSD. I have a simple question regarding hardware
> compability. Here is the components that were suggested by the
> retailler:
> 
> -ASUS P6NP5 pentium/pro motherboard with intel PP 200Mhz, 256K cache
> -64 MB EDO RAM
> -2.1 GB Panasonic SCSI HD
> -2 MB PCI S-3-3D Virge Graphic video card

More ram on the video card is better. And it's cheaper to by the 4 meg
version of a card than to get a 2meg upgrade later.

But this will work fine.


> -17 " Daytek digital video
> -mitsumi mouse
> -12x SCSI toshiba cd-rom (ext)
> -Adaptec ISA SCSI-II card

You probably mistyped this. You want a PCI SCSI card. Either the
2940U or 2940UW (not the A)

Or the ASUS SC200 is a good choice according to the list. 

I have both the 2940U and 2940UW, and am very happy with them.


> -OvisLink PCI Combo lan coard

I don't know this card. Is it a DEC chip based board? 


> 
> Can you tell me if this hardware would have any problem running under
> FreeBSD or/and make any suggestion.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Sylvain Hubert
> hubert@physics.uottawa.ca
> 
> 


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