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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!platinum.sge.net!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!bulb.garlic.com!news.scruz.net!news.he.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5p1c6h$rd6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33b2b094.63293105@news.synapse.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43673 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. ;-)