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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Best Pentium Motherboard, HD, Controller
Message-ID: <1995May26.200824.27059@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: The poor LISPers' hacking kitchen
References: <3q35oh$k2g_001@simi.rain.org>
Date: Fri, 26 May 95 20:08:24 GMT
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noah@rain.org (Matt Noah) writes:

>I am looking for the best combination of Motherboard, hard drive(s)
>and SCSI controllers for a BSD/OS 2.0 account/news server.  So far:

>ASUS P100 Motherboard with 64 MB Ram, expandable to 512 MB
>Seagate Barracudas
>Buslogic 946C (Rev. E) SCSI controller.

>Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Depending on your application (if you don't primary  run little
interactive prograns) I suggest to get the ASUS mainboard with the
triton chipset. Much more memroy bandwidth, even withstandard simms.

I rather use  a NCR 810 PCI SCSI-Controller. Make sure to get the
original Asus SC-200, others have problems with termination.

Seagate Barrcouda is OK, High-End IBM as well.

Martin
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