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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: What is a good hardware setup for FreeBSD, from scratch? Date: 27 Feb 94 03:31:01 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 30 Message-ID: <michaelv.762319861@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> References: <2knl08$j3a@news.kth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderous.cc.iastate.edu In <2knl08$j3a@news.kth.se> prl@stacken.kth.se (Ragnar Lonn) writes: >If I'm to buy a whole new system, piece by piece, to run FreeBSD, what >are the best hardware choices, From a NetBSD perspective... >1. Harddisk controllers. I'd probably want a SCSI-controller. Which one? BusLogic -- inexpensive, fast, and great support. Make sure it's either EISA or Vesa Local Bus (bt7xx or bt445s). ISA won't let you use more than 16meg in your machine, and PCI isn't supported yet as far as I know. Any decent newish SCSI-2 drive should give you decent performance. >2. Graphics card. I'd like to run X of course. Something S3 based *not* from Diamond. >3. Ethernet card. Which one is fast and has a good driver? Maybe speeds > don't differ much. I prefer the SMC/WD ether cards for speed and general quality. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------