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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:06:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        mwlucas@gltg.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hardware for 4.0
Message-ID:  <200002221906.LAA62279@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <200002221755.MAA00415@blackhelicopters.org> from "mwlucas@gltg.com" at "Feb 22, 2000 12:55:27 pm"

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> Hello,
> 
> I'm purchasing a server to run 4.0 on.  It won't be in production
> immediately, but I need to get a quote ASAP.
> 
> What SCSI card would people recommend?  It doesn't need RAID.
> Any particular SCSI tape drive?
We are partial to the TekRAM 390-F symbios 53C875 based controller.

> I'll probably buy a midrange Asus motherboard and a nice Intel fxp
> NIC to go on it.  Any other recommendations?

IBM Hard drives...

And if you get the ASUS P3B board don't let it run in jumper free
mode, nail the settings down with the jumpers as we have seen one
too many times that this board likes to _think_ the CPU has changed
and fails during a remote reboot.

-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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