From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 30 00:08:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA27292 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:08:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from emout06.mail.aol.com (emout06.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.97]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA27286 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:08:01 -0800 (PST) From: StevenR362@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout06.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id DAA08082; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 03:07:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 03:07:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970130001449_1313001207@emout06.mail.aol.com> To: sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk, jkh@time.cdrom.com cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA Questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a message dated 97-01-29 13:53:12 EST, sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk (Søren Schmidt) writes: > A couple of ideas: > > First see to it that the two IDE HD's are of different make, that should > get you a good deal of exitement. Eg Quantum & WD or WD & Maxtor or > WD & Seagate could give you some interesting funkiness, If you can get > hold of a Conner drive, the make of the other doesn't matter, you'll > have all the fun anyways), get a Promise or better a HongKong clone > of a IDE cache controller, and then a Sanyo 3 disk ATAPI cdrom. > Then a Elcheapo MAD or OPTI based soundcard, and a LPT port that > only can be set at the lpt3 (0x3bc) address, together with an early > Matrox MGA videocard. > > This should supply you all the fun you can bare for the foreseeable > future... Hmmm, parts of the above listing sound suspiciously like the hardware I sent you. :) Glad to see that you are having fun with it! Steve