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From: cnordin@hq.vni.net (Craig Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: What H/W Works Right And Goes Fast?
Date: 19 Nov 1995 00:07:34 -0500
Organization: Virtual Networks
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After watching many threads about hardware headaches,
I've become wary. I know that the wrong equipment
can turn my job into that of a babysitter of boxes.
I want to avoid the nightmare. If you know of something
that works or doesn't work, please follow-up or e-mail
me... I'll summarize what I find...
Here are components I think are fast and compatible:
[ ] Triton Chipset MotherBoards, full pipelined burst cache
[ ] Neptune Chipset MotherBoards, full pipelined burst cache
[ ] P90, P100, P120, P133, P150 ???
[ ] 50-70ns Parity RAM SIMMS
[ ] Mitsumi semi-IDE CD Player (slow!)
[ ] Any SCSI CD Player (including new 6X drives)
[ ] Any Seagate, Micropolis, Quantum SCSI 2 + 4 GIG Drives
[ ] Adaptec 1542C SCSI Adaptor Card or pretenders (slow!)
[ ] Adaptec 2940 and 2940W and 3940 SCSI-2 PCI Adaptor Cards
[ ] 3 COM Etherlink - 3 (slow!)
[ ] ???????? 100BaseT Ethernet (PCI maybe) Adaptor Card
I appreciate any vendor recommendations.
--
"He who loses control, loses." Frank Pembleton, Homicide
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