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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 14 Jan 1996 22:10:53 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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David Bellamy <bellamy@commerce.uq.edu.au> wrote:
] > >It can take a week to get a machine to simply recognize two SCSI
] > >controllers. Nobody expects you to put two into a machine, so nobody
] > >tells you the convolutions needed to do so.
] >
] > You'll have the same problem with PC unices as you do with SUN/DEC/SGI
] > workstations. How do I stick one in my Sparc 10, I've avoided doing it
] > simply because it's a pain? (BTW - I know how, it's almost *exactly*
] > the same procedure as doing it under any of the BSD's)
]
]
] That must be something peculiar to BSD (SunOS 4.x ??). Under SunOS 5.4,
]
] touch /reconfigure
] power down and install new SCSI-2 card
] boot
] There it is.
I think Nate's comment was regarding the ability of the card
to subsequently operate reliably.
[ ... ]
] > Software support isn't perfect on *ANY* OS
] > you choose, but if you stick with the standard OS's already discussed
] > you'll be pretty safe.
]
] You'd probably also want to pick one that is being actively developed
] and enhanced - all this WWW stuff is introducing stresses and demands on
] an OS that no one could have dreamed of. BSD derived systems are pretty
] well dead (yes I'm sure there is an exception, somewhere) but most
] mainstream suppliers now are using SVR4 derived systems.
The exception you are thinking of is probably freefall.cdrom.com,
arguably the most active site on the net.
It is a FreeBSD system.
FreeBSD is being actively developed and enhanced.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.