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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.iguide.com!delphi.com!usenet From: Jim Nelson <smartsignal@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: freeBSD and P6/180 Date: Sat, 2 Nov 96 14:15:36 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 15 Message-ID: <h1LxvFQ.smartsignal@delphi.com> References: <32784DB5.2BDE@sybase.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1b.delphi.com X-To: Taras Dowhaluk <tarasd@sybase.com> Taras Dowhaluk <tarasd@sybase.com> writes: >The planned (but not yet purchased) hardware is > PentiumPro 180MHZ, > motherboard is P/I-P6NP5, 2xPCI Bus Master IDE ports, > Award PentiumPro PCI BIOS with DMI, blah, blah, blah, > 48Mb EDO RAM, > 2x2.1Gb Seagate IDE (ST32140A), We're using several of the ATX version of that ASUS motherboard, the xp6np5, and it works great. I am not alone in finding freeBSD to be much happier with SCSI than (e)ide devices, and that is true for the cdroms as well. The trouble with SCSI is that it is getting harder ( more expensive ) to find cdrom drives; we're using 4.4x Sonys, but you can get Plextor 8x drives. Good luck.