From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 5:21:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655A01533B for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 05:21:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.19]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA40FE; Thu, 27 May 1999 14:21:50 +0200 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA70005; Thu, 27 May 1999 14:22:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199905270555.WAA17846@ralf.serv.net> Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:22:15 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Ken McGlothlen Subject: RE: Time to upgrade---but not all at once. Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-May-99 Ken McGlothlen wrote: > > I'd like to be running 3.2-RELEASE (I'm currently still running > 2.2.1-RELEASE). > So here's the sequence I'm thinking about following: > > Upgrade my Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller to something else. > > I was thinking of the 2940UW, but now I see that Ultra2 SCSI > LVD (whatever that is) has come out, so should I be > considering the 2940U2W instead? And does FreeBSD support > that yet? > (Wasn't clear from the 3.2 release notes.) Aye it does. The AHA2940U2W is a driver of the new CAM system and will run nicely with 3.2. > Upgrade my 2GB IBM drive to a 9GB (or larger) drive. > > I'm *really* behind on drives. What do y'all like at the > moment? I'm leaning toward another IBM drive, but Quantum > has also always been pretty good to me. Any preferences out > there? Quantum/Seagate have my preference... > Upgrade the 3Com 3C900 10Mb/s ethernet card I have to something > 100BaseT. > > Again, 'way behind on these. Anyone using the 3C905B-TX? That's the xl0 driver =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The FreeBSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Accept no limitations... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message