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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!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux9.cso.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: NEED: The Best PC for FreeBS (Advice is asked) Date: 6 Dec 1996 03:03:53 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5882ep$amr@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux9.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Hi , All! I need to make a decision in a couple days: Need to find the best - in sense of quality (reliability+support by FreeBSD) + performance, PC: Motherboard - ? SCSI card - ? Ethernet card - ? (3COM ? 3C509 ???) DLT (with SCSI, installable in E2 or E8 towers) - ? (I don't know if there is a choice of those, are they supported, btw. ?) (I am not looking for the cheapest, although would prefer to not waste extra $$ for just fancy but not necessary things) These boxes are intended to be primarily web, ftp, -servers, (one might be an nfs server for others as well, though it is not the first priority.) Did anybody have any experience of using E2 or/and E8 with SCSI with a FreeBSD box ? And, a lame question: Is there any reason to have a "system" disk for a FreeBSD box (PC) with IDE interface as opposed to SCSI ? Thank in advance. I'd be very grateful if you can answer via e-mail. (igor@uiuce.edu) Thanks! IgoR