Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:52:27 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: hubert@joule.physics.uottawa.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hubert@joule.physics.uottawa.ca Subject: Re: hardware compatibility Message-ID: <199706111452.JAA25843@horton.iaces.com> 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 > > -- ... And once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to return...
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