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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!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!sgigate.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: "Faried Nawaz" <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: New Computer... Date: 12 Jun 1996 11:06:07 -0700 Organization: http://pfawww.pp.se/ Lines: 27 Sender: fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <nfbuio5240.fsf@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu> References: <4pg0u7$ljg_001@evt-pm1-ip9.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pain.csrv.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: ameoba@halcyon.com's message of 10 Jun 1996 05:19:50 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4pg0u7$ljg_001@evt-pm1-ip9.halcyon.com> ameoba@halcyon.com (ameoba) writes: Well, since I'm going off to college next year, my family has decided to buy me a new computer, on which I plan to install FreeBSD (and Windows NT, just cause it will come in handy...) but the big question is, which would be better, all other things equal: a P5 w/SCSI or a P6 w/ EIDE drives? Either way, I'll be getting 32 megs of ram, some PCI video card, a 10/100 PCI enthernet card, and a 2 gig hard-drive. I know that SCSI is much better than IDE, especially when multitasking, but the P6 is better than the P5 w/ 32 bit software... Oh, what should I do? You want SCSI, not EIDE. You might take a big perf hit by not using SCSI. It'll also be easier to add components (more hard drives, cdroms, etc) later on. Oh, and please direct any more FreeBSD questions you have to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. This newsgroup is about NetBSD. faried. -- faried nawaz WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY BACKSPACE IS DELETE box 3582, moscow, id 83843-1914, usa linux, the ms-dos of the nineties PIGLET loves you if at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you just a system janitor. People's Front Against WWW