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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!desert!heaven7.snafu.de!usenet From: martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: new machine for news - any suggestions? Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:06:30 +0100 Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany Lines: 27 Sender: martini@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Message-ID: <ufvimhazs9.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> References: <4cq5ck$flf@gol2.gol.com> <4cq8gf$rn9@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu's message of 8 Jan 1996 05:02:07 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4cq8gf$rn9@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: : You can use IDE systems just fine, with the following important provisos: : : o If you want to expand significantly later, you're wasting your : money. Why? What's wrong with starting with IDE and stuffing the system with a SCSI host adaptor and drives latter, leading to a mixed system? I know that it works (I have one here that runs both FreeBSD and Linux straddled between IDE and SCSI), but I even half-suspected it would give good performance since you get two independent data pathes to the disks. Is that kind of thinking misguided? : I dislike IDE drives and do not use them in any of my systems, but that : doesn't mean that you won't have good success with them. Generally, I share your dislike of IDE drives, but I do use them since there are cheaper. I don't refuse my father's spare IDE drive for free only to keep a system SCSI only. -- __ | Martin Ibert, Fürstenweg 11, D-13589 Berlin-Spandau, Germany, EU ( )__ | martini@heaven7.snafu.de, Fon: +4930-3753479, Fax: +4930-3753699 ( )_ |----------------------------------------------------------------- (_________) | All that we see or seem/is but a dream within a dream. -- E.A.P. <PGP public key is available on request or from any self-respecting key server>