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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware Subject: Re: Hardware choice? Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 21:45:10 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 22 Message-ID: <30BBF366.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <49g6k2$da7@newdelph.rtsg.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Kevin Kadow <kadow@komondor.cig.mot.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9776 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1472 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware:2334 Kevin Kadow wrote: > Can anybody suggest a good choice for PCI or local-bus video and SCSI > cards that will be compatible with Windows-NT, FreeBSD, and Solaris? PCI video choices from #9 or Matrox will do you fine, though if you go Matrox be also advised that you'll have to buy commercial X servers for Solaris and FreeBSD (from the same place - X Inside, Inc :-). > Is the new Adaptec Fast/Wide SCSI card a good choice? We have plenty of > wide scsi drives already, which makes it an attractive choice? Yeah, should be more than happy with FreeBSD. Don't know about Solaris, but I'd certainly expect so.. > Does anybody make a good PCI ethernet card? Does FreeBSD support it? Indeed. SMC makes an Etherpower series that works well. You really should avail yourself of the Handbook - http://www.freebsd.org; all this information is in there! :) See particularly my "picks" page in Chapter 9. -- Jordan