From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 19:28:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA27557 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 19:28:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA27552 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 19:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (seabass.progroup.com [206.24.122.1]) by seabass.progroup.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA20187; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 19:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <325B0CC7.41C67EA6@progroup.com> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 19:24:07 -0700 From: Craig Shaver Organization: Productivity Group, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lawrence Lordanich CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware compatibility References: <199610081548.IAA28130@tenchi.qualcomm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lawrence Lordanich wrote: > > I am seriously thinking of putting together a Unix workstation so I can work > from home. I want to build the system around the SuperMicro P5STE motherboard. > Can you give me any pointers? SCSI is costly etc... and what hardware > compatibility issues do I need to know about? > > Thanks, > > Lawrence. Check out the freebsd site at http://www.freebsd.org/ and look for some of the documentation that deals with hardware. I think the worst deficiencies in the hardware area are lack of isdn and rilly cheap tape backups. -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088