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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!warwick!zaphod.crihan.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!zib-berlin.de!netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!sun4nl!news.nic.surfnet.nl!tuegate.tue.nl!news.win.tue.nl!eba.eb.ele.tue.nl!eba.eb.ele.tue.nl!not-for-mail From: wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: What is a good hardware setup for FreeBSD, from scratch? Date: 2 Mar 1994 13:15:37 -0100 Organization: Digital Information Systems Group, Eindhoven University of Technology Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2l2729$4c8@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl> References: <2knl08$j3a@news.kth.se> <michaelv.762319861@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl In article <michaelv.762319861@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: => 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... It's novice question but would FreeBSD or NetBSD differ much in this perspective? My guess would be that there would be little difference in low level drivers between both systems. => >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. So what about the UtraStore 34F, which I was advised to buy (haven't yet) I can buy both localbus version for about the same price. Regards, WjW -- Digital Information Systems Group, Tel: +31-40-473401, Fax: +31-40-433066 Room EH 10.35 Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands TEAM OS/2 Internet:wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl, X400:C=nl;A=400net;P=surf;O=tue;OU=ele;OU=eb;S=WJW;