From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 15 10:06:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B030B16A4DA for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:06:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@hausro.de) Received: from mail3.netbeat.de (mail3.netbeat.de [83.243.58.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C86543D4C for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:06:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@hausro.de) Received: (qmail 8296 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2006 10:06:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Rage) (86.104.204.91) by mail3.netbeat.de with SMTP; 15 Aug 2006 10:06:05 -0000 Message-ID: <04fb01c6c052$6ad7d9e0$857ba8c0@Rage> From: "ANdrei" To: References: <200607201318.k6KDIOKH092991@lurza.secnetix.de><049d01c6c005$dfee6570$857ba8c0@Rage><200608142217.16569.ogautherot@vtr.net> <16653.137.154.16.31.1155617267.squirrel@webmail.bong.com.au> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:03:15 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Subject: Re: building an old-hardware server X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:06:05 -0000 hi Dean > realteks nics are horrible, if you have a 3c905b floating around *use it* > you should be able to pick them up for about $2 if someone rips you off, > also intel etherexpress 100/B's are good as well, they will also be > in a local pile of old parts for $2. yeah, I was thinking the same. > Any network card drive that comes compiled with a release kernel can > safely be considered very usable. also, dont be worried if a network card > chip > has bugs, they often do, and to confuse things, chips with lots of > clones tend to have different bugs depending on who made the chip > (the digital 'tulip' ones, KNE110TX previously mentioned is one, had > many manufacturers and varried bugs and quirks) I have to build another old-hardware server in some weeks, so I will then use the KNE11TX maybe... Also have a SMC around, seems to be bug-free driver... Usually when I have an alternative, I use the best one, so I might go for SMC ;) > 1 gig hard disks are a waste of time, space and money. How about 2gig ones? ;) I actually don't pay anything for these, but would have to pay for other ones... only have those and two 4GB IDEs, but I thought SCSI to be faster and less CPU killing... We have enough space here, just no money for this server :) thanks for your reply! ANdrei