Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:56:09 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, smp@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GigaByte GA-586DX-512 Motherboard Message-ID: <199611121756.JAA06618@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 12 Nov 96 03:46:11 -0500. <Pine.NEB.3.95.961112034130.10666A-100000@quagmire.ki.net>
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>>I recommend 64meg of parity. Don't really have direct knowledge of EDO vs not. > Hrmmm...I had thought that EDO RAM was better because it had >'on chip' cache or something like that ... Uh, no. EDO RAM simply takes less clock cycles per access than standard (or FPM) RAM. And EDO isn't more expensive. It hasn't been for many months. Parity RAM will be more expensive (not that I'm saying you shouldn't buy it). >> > How about Hard Drive? atipa doesn't list Seagates, that I can find, >> >and recent experiencees with Quantum are steering me clear of them. >>atipa carries a rather limited selection in general, just how they do business. >> I would suggest getting the drive from someplace that carries what you want. A place I have been generall happy with: http://www.basoncomputer.com/. > Does anyone have any recommendations on drives? Or, any drives >in particular I should stick away from? I heard that SeaGate went downhill >for awhile there...anyone have a current opinion of them? The IBM drives appear to be particularly good values at the moment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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