From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Mar 24 7:28:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ftp.nvg.com (ftp.nvg.com [199.179.254.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD8E37B71A for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 07:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net) Received: from pnt004 (vsat-148-63-55-208.c1.sb4.mcl.starband.net [148.63.55.208]) by ftp.nvg.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA00503 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:23:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Ed Henderson" To: Subject: Server MB suggestions? Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:23:04 -0500 Message-ID: <000d01c0b476$532a5e00$0464a8c0@pnt004> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am planning to use FreeBSD as my primary OS for an ISP that I am = starting. I am beginning my research for the best motherboard/hardware = to use for a production environment. One that is reliable and performs = well (with reliable being the number=20 one priority!). I plan to build the server myself. My background has = been in Solaris on Sun equipment so most of the hardware choices were = already made for me! Here are some questions that I have: 1. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good MB to use? Or what = chipset is the best and most stable with FreeBSD? I plan to use AMD = Athlon chips, tower case, IDE drives/peripherals, at least 256MB RAM. = Budget is limited since we are just beginning: approx. $1300 per server = (not including tape drive which is seperate see #3 below). Servers will = host typical ISP apps: DNS, RADIUS, mail, Apache, etc. 2. What IDE controllers do your recommend? Or would SCSI be better (but = more costly)? I want to use at least RAID1 mirroring for some = redundancy. 3. Any reliable tape drive suggestions? I have budgeted $1500 for a tape = drive. 4. I am most familiar with building MSWindows systems and most of the = time MB/chipsets require add'l software/drivers to be loaded when = installing MSWindows. Since most boards are designed with MSWindows in = mind does this present a problem when using FreeBSD as the OS? Thanks for the input! Ed. =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message