From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 15:36:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA16497 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:36:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from InfoWest.COM (infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA16492 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:36:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from einstein (zaketh.uv.com [204.17.177.97]) by InfoWest.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA19900 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 16:43:53 -0701 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960405003554.007320b4@infowest.com> X-Sender: agifford@infowest.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 17:35:54 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Aaron D. Gifford" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I get to spend some money soon on another FreeBSD server and I would like to hear comments on what hardware has worked/I should avoid. I am thinking of using Pentium 133 or 166, 128MB RAM (60 ns. access time, perhaps EDO...) 256/512K cache, Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI-2 Fast controller, three 2 Gig 7200 RPM HD's on the SCSI bus (internal) in a big case with LOTS of FANS (gotta keep them drives happy), and 2 PCI 100/100Mbit ethernet cards. Okay, now for questions: * What's a good motherboard to go with? What motherboards (and/or chipsets, BIOS chipsets, etc.) should I avoid like the plague? * Which 100Mbit ethernet PCI cards work well with FreeBSD? I've hard the 3Com and SMC boards mentioned. I'll need the 2 cards to work happily side by side in the same machine. * Which HD's are folks happy with? I've used Seagate's Barracuda's with success, and I've got 1 Connor 7200RPM that is still happily purring along. I'd love to hear success stories, horror stories. Let me know specific hardware to avoid if possible. Now, I've seen a lot of this stuff on the list before. I am reviewing that as well. When I'm done, I'll put up a web page summarizing what I've found and what others have replied to me about and post the URL. Someone mentioned doing a web page on hard drives like this. Let me know of any web resources that might help me in my quest. Thanks for any/all comments/suggestions! Sincerely, Aaron Gifford --=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=-- Aaron D. Gifford InfoWest, 1845 W. Sunset Blvd, St. George, UT 84770 InfoWest Networking Phone: (801) 674-0165 FAX: (801) 673-9734 Visit InfoWest at: "http://www.infowest.com/" ICBM: 37.07847 N, 113.57858 W "Southern Utah's Finest Network Connection" --=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--