From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 13:42:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02490 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:42:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02349 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:41:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA25590; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:40:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 13:40:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Beaudoin, Jean-Marc" cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: About HDD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 May 1998, Beaudoin, Jean-Marc wrote: > We just bought Freebsd 2.2.6 from Walnut Creek and are now evaluating > the require hardware to build our FreeBSD computer. > > We have a small NT machine that runs with a Quantum Fireball 4,3 Gb > Ultra ATA interface with <9,5ms seek time and 256k of cache that works > very nicely and considering buying the same thing for our FreeBSD > machine. > > As the Supported Hardware specifies IDE and EIDE drives, we just want to > make sure that this one will work before buying. Steer clear of Promise IDE controlles, and SCSI would be a good idea if this is going to be a server. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message