From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 15:32:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05307 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:32:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from avatar.avatar.com (avatar.avatar.com [199.33.206.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05299 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:32:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from avatar.avatar.com (kory@avatar.avatar.com [199.33.206.17]) by avatar.avatar.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA29792 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:31:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:31:43 -0800 (PST) From: Kory Hamzeh To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: EIDE vs. SCSI Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm NOT trying to start a SCSI vs. EIDE war here. I need to put together a low cost but fast pentium 166 freebsd machine. The box will be used for mail server, dns server, web server, and ftp server -- all which is fairly low volume (our inet connection is only 56k). This server will be sitting on the ethernet only and will not be dialed into directly (we have a nailed 56k conenction via a dedicated router). My question is this: most mother boards have a built in EIDE controller and IDE drivers are much cheaper then SCSI. What is the approx performance hit buy using EIDE instead of Wide SCSI for a FreeBSD system? I need to put this system together as cheap and possible but I need it as fast as possible. I am shooting for a 166mhz pentium with 64meg of ram and a eide/scsi 2 gig drive. One last thing, is there support for IDE CD-ROM in 2.1.5-RELEASE? Thanks, Kory