Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 18:36:39 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu (Kevin Van Maren) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Subject: Re: hw platform Q - what's a good smp choice these days? Message-ID: <199810050036.SAA17049@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 12:40:32 MDT." <199810041840.MAA08710@fast.cs.utah.edu>
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Hi, > > Don't cheap-out on SCSI, its only about $120 more for u2w capability: > > > > ASUS P2B-D Dual Pentium II AGP ATX Motherboard $299 > > ASUS P2B-DS Pentium II AGP ATX Motherboard $419 > > > > Much cheaper than adding a card later... I've really become a fan of the > > Asus P2B-DS, I can do a "make -j12 buildworld" in about 40 minutes (3 > > spindles on u2w cheetahs). > > If you are going to multiple disks and have the money, SCSI is the > way to go. But IDE disks are so much less! For a single drive, > the new IDE DMA driver does as well as SCSI. I agree with this point, but I think of SCSI as much more than a disk controller. I typically hang a jaz or zip drive off it, plus a SCSI DAT tape for backup, or possibly a scanner, or a CD-ROM drive, or ... -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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