Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:44:28 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960226114046.4058B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960218150253.26624B-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > Just wanted to mention that I finally upgraded my box at home to SCSI.. > The main thing that was holding me back before was that I needed to > replace my VLB IDE card with a plain old ISA one because you can only have > 2 VLB cards on a motherboard, not three (thanks to Joerg for pointing this > out!). Now I've got a Quantum Lightning 730MB SCSI in there, and the Why not? Do you really want to say it was just a joke on the manufacturer's part to put *three* VLB slots on the motherboards? > performance difference is quite noticable. Interestingly, I ran Winbench > 96 under NT before and after, and the DiskMark was only 10K/sec faster, > but both 16 and 32-bit CPUMarks had shot up almost 9% (must be less CPU > load during paging)... > > I just installed FreeBSD on the new SCSI drive and it's working pretty > good, but unfortunately I've been in NT too much to get all of my Unix files > transferred over from the IDE partition (because I wanted to "clean house" > while I was doing it).. However, lest you all think I've totally gone > over to the "dark side" I've got a FreeBSD box set up at my university, > and we're trying to get a partnership with some CIS (computer information > systems) majors to get another FreeBSD box on the Web. Internet serving > is one area where I can NOT in good faith recommend either NT or Linux, > but wholeheartedly will recommend FreeBSD! Also, I've been learning MFC and > Visual C++ (that's why I've been in NT so much) with the specific goal of > porting FreeBSD programs over to Win32, so I'll post my progress on that > as time goes by. Why would you port FreeBSD programs to WinNT? Why not vice versa? > > Keep on hacking! > ---Jake > Sander
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