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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!caamora!jmichaels From: jmichaels@caamora.caamora.com.au (Jonathan Michaels) Date: 29 Oct 95 20:27:26 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: seeking advice, please Message-ID: <f42_9511041206@caamora.caamora.com.au> Organization: Caamora, Clovelly NSW Australia Lines: 41 Hello All! my pair of (venerably) old dos boxes have maintained a dos to fidonet and provided a uucp feed for a dozen or so clients for well over two years now and i think its about time to upgrade the operating system as well as the hardware. as my client base is slowly expanding and the dos solution is being overun by the inherant weakness of constantly using the wrong tools for the job. in an effort to correct this situation i plan to use freebsd 2.1.0-release and my question concerns the i/o cards that i will be using and some of the specified hardware, buslogic kt-946c, busmaster, fast scsi, pci stb velocity 64v (4 mb edo vram) accton pci ethernet (rg45+bnc) sony cdu76s quad spin scsi cdrom drive sony 2.88 mb 3.5 inch floppy disk drive fujitsu 2.1 gig 10 ms scsi hard disk what sort of expericences (good+bad) has this community regarding any of the above items either singely or as combinations. i will be using some sort of noname pentium 90 clone with 32 mb of dram what are the real advantages, if any, of upgrading this to 64 mb ? regards, and thanks in advance. i can also be reached, jmichaels@caamora.com.au Jonathan ps, i am a disabled person and it is difficult for me to use the keyoard and uppercase characters on the screen confuse my vision somewhat, this is why most of my posts are usually devoid of uppercase characters. please, excuse the ommision on my part. -- Caamora (InterNet Services) __________________________________________ PO Box 2036 Clovelly West NSW 2031 Australia data +61 2 6659249 ------------------------------------------- <jmichaels@caamora.com.au>