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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: What hardware to buy to run Linux? Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 15:39:15 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 19 Message-ID: <pk+ugzT.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <chinacatCMvn2o.3F4@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1b.delphi.com X-To: J. Petersen <chinacat@netcom.com> J. Petersen <chinacat@netcom.com> writes: >I figure at least: 486/66, 8-16mb RAM, 300+ mb hard driv Add to that EISA, Buslogic EISA SCSI (I think 747S?), VESA is good too -- dont know about PCI. >IDE or SCSI? I'm leaning strongly towards SCSI at the moment. If you are using EISA, I would say SCSI --definitely--, just make sure that you choose a drive that has good caching. If you choose IDE, all of the *BSD and Linux have *ok* IDE drivers, its just that IDE is so variable regarding quality. (Cheap IDE interfaces have given us fits.) I have only answered a few questions, just won't say something that I am not sure about. John dyson@implode.root.com