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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!gol2!tao!pb.injapan.net!user From: doug@inJapan.net (Doug Lerner) Subject: Is COMPAQ ok? Sender: usenet@inJapan.net (Charlie Root) Nntp-Posting-Host: pb.injapan.net Organization: inJapan Message-ID: <doug-1304961519450001@pb.injapan.net> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 06:19:45 GMT Lines: 25 Doug here, in Tokyo again, with another simple question: are COMPAQs ok for FreeBSD? Thanks to the many responses I received about whether I can use an IDE-based machine, I have decided to stick with SCSI only, like my current FreeBSD machine. In Akihabara they are selling some inexpensive Compaq's, all SCSI (smart SCSI-II), with a DX4 cup, 16MB of RAM, 2GB of HD and built-in ether card for a little over $1000. It seems like a great deal for my purpose. But a friend was cautioning me that Compaq's use some proprietary, incompatible bus hardware, and it may not support FreeBSD. So, if anybody with Compaq experience can tell me whether there are problems or not with Compaqs, I would greatly appreciate hearing! Right now my DNS, SMTP, NNTP and RADIUS are all running on one machine. It works just fine, but I am having nightmares about the hard disk crashing and my entire system coming to a standstill! <grin> Thanks! Doug Lerner doug@inJapan.net