Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 16:11:51 -0600 From: Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinions on IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <19981204161151.B79347@znh.org> In-Reply-To: <19981204115213.A36131@oit.umass.edu>; from Greg Pavelcak on Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 11:52:13AM -0500 References: <19981204115213.A36131@oit.umass.edu>
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On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 11:52:13AM -0500, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > Reading several FreeBSD mailing lists gives me the impression > that at least some people think IDE drives are just fine for your > average user. However, although I have seen specific brands of > SCSI drives discussed, I don't recall seeing recommendations on > IDE hard drives; hence the purpose of this posting is to solicit > your opinions on reliable, fast ide hard drives. With Christmas > on the horizon, I just may be able to score some new hardware. > Of course, if your view is that IDE is just not worth it, please > post as well. There are some incompatibilities between the Intel TX chipset and some Seagate IDE drives (only non-UDMA ones last I checked, but that may have changed). I don't recall the list off hand (it's on a seagate webpage), but there is an indirect pointer to it from the 'bcm' motherboard page. You probably could start at 'toms hardware guide', last seen at: http://sysdoc.pair.com/ There might be other compatibilities as well (between different chipsets and different manufactures IDE drives). -- Zach Heilig (zach@gaffaneys.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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