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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with setting up....
Date: 07 Nov 1995 06:10:54 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.95Nov6221055@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
References: <DHH185.KFs@network.com> <47jbpo$ldt@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 5 Nov 1995 22:54:00 +0100
In article <47jbpo$ldt@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
Jeff Henning <jeh@chainsaw.network.com> wrote:
>I want to install windows 95 on 1 disk and FreeBSD on a second
>disk and be able to boot from either. This is not a problem with
>SCSI but it is considerably more expensive than IDE. Does anyone
SCSI is not necessarily *that* much more expensive. You have to
compare apples with apples however (i.e., don't compare a crappy IDE
drive with a high-end SCSI one).
Use an NCR 53c810 SCSI controller. They are quite cheap, even
compared to the better parts of the EIDE crap (i think you can get'em
around $70 or so), this will level down the slightly higher price of
the SCSI disk. Of course, i don't have the slightest idea how good
>>>Win95 might be with the NCR conroller. FreeBSD runs fine, to the
least. Since you're going to get two disks anyway, you are also free
to use an IDE one for Win95, and a SCSI drive for FreeBSD.
Considering one of the most common development platforms at Microsoft
has a built-in NCR 53c810 port (or two), I'd say Windows 95 was
probably written on it.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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