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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!idiom.com!idiom.com!not-for-mail From: muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Speccing a FreeBSD box Date: 10 Feb 1995 18:28:05 -0800 Organization: Idiom Consulting Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3hh7bl$9qs@idiom.com> References: <D3q71E.64v@bonkers.taronga.com> In article <D3q71E.64v@bonkers.taronga.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> wrote: >OK, I need to spec a couple of boxes to be used for backups. These boxes >will be running FreeBSD and Amanda, with 2GB disk and an Exabyte tape drive >on each. > >The problem is, they're going to be *bought* by someone else, in purchasing. >I'd like to have them be reasonably current, with whatever high performance >SCSI is reliable and reasonably available, and so on. So, what should I put >in the spec? What's a reliable motherboard, reliable controllers, etc...? The best motherboards come from ASUS, but Intel motherboards seem to work okay too and they are much cheaper. The NCR 53c810 PCI SCSI controller seems to work well with FreeBSD and Linux but not NetBSD 1.0 (older version of the driver). Since it's only $75 and performs well, there isn't much reason to use something else. If you using FreeBSD 2.0, stay away from 3com 3c509 ethernet controllers and instead buy an SMC Elite (ISA or PCI). Jordan has a disk to reccomend. A Quantum 211??? Jordan? -Dave