Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:31:43 -0800 (PST) From: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: EIDE vs. SCSI Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970122152517.29151D-100000@avatar.avatar.com>
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I'm NOT trying to start a SCSI vs. EIDE war here. I need to put together a low cost but fast pentium 166 freebsd machine. The box will be used for mail server, dns server, web server, and ftp server -- all which is fairly low volume (our inet connection is only 56k). This server will be sitting on the ethernet only and will not be dialed into directly (we have a nailed 56k conenction via a dedicated router). My question is this: most mother boards have a built in EIDE controller and IDE drivers are much cheaper then SCSI. What is the approx performance hit buy using EIDE instead of Wide SCSI for a FreeBSD system? I need to put this system together as cheap and possible but I need it as fast as possible. I am shooting for a 166mhz pentium with 64meg of ram and a eide/scsi 2 gig drive. One last thing, is there support for IDE CD-ROM in 2.1.5-RELEASE? Thanks, Kory
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