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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Hardware for *BSD next weekend!
Date: 4 Apr 94 16:10:11 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <2nip6pINNgm7@grumpy.symantec.com> ksussman@symantec.com (Kurt Sussman) writes:
>Here's my plan:
>486DX2/66 ISA/VLB, 16M RAM
>Cheap S3 VLB video
>Adaptec 1542B
> The FAQ seems to suggest that this is the One True
> SCSI Card ... Is it better/faster/more featurful
> than the others? Or is the driver just more
> reliable?
No, this card has just been the lowest common denominator for awhile.
Remember, this is an ISA-bus card, which means it will be slow, and
will require bounce-buffers to work in more than 16 meg (making it
even slower).
You'd be much better off getting a VLB (or EISA-bus) SCSI controller
like the BusLogic bt445s. This will run at the full 32-bit bandwidth
of the localbus, instead of the 16-bit 8MHz bandwidth of the ISA bus.
>BIG (1G+, maybe that Q1800 1.8G drive...) SCSI disk
> Will I have to split a large drive into many tiny
> partitions? Or will 3/G be enough?
You don't have to. This is up to you.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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