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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New Installation - Will the hardware work?
Date: 27 Jun 1997 21:43:45 GMT
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yves@streamwave.com (Yves Dagenais) wrote:

> - Western Digital AC33100 3.1 Gig

An IDE disk?  I wouldn't use such a beast on a server.  It eats up
expensive CPU cycles.

> - D-Link DE-220ECT ISA Network Card

What's this?  For a server, i would pick one of the better PCI cards,
or maybe a good ol' WD8013.  (Really no idea what a ``DE-220ECT''
might be, and whether it's supported at all.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)