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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!hookup!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!pencotts.demon.co.uk From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: Hardware and software questions Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 12:13:36 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: <815314416.18859@pencotts.demon.co.uk> References: <478906$sak@mail.Rogers.Com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: blau@mail.rogers.com X-URL: news:478906$sak@mail.Rogers.Com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii blau@mail.rogers.com (Benjamin Lau) wrote: >2. Has anyone used Seagate 4GB SCSI-2 drives with Adaptec 2940 on >FreeBSD? any problem with that? >I'm going to need 12GB to carry a full feed of news, and don't want to >hang 6 x 2GB drives off a PC. One of our systems has 2940+Seagate hawk 4Gb, works fine. Using 2.0.5, it worked while the disc was the only SCSI device, but gave lots of problems when I added a (rather old) Exabyte tape. Running 2.0.5 kernel with SCSI driver transplanted from 2.1-STABLE of some months ago made it reliable (now with 2 drives, 2 tapes and CD-ROM). >3. Would you rather to have a fast PCI SCSI controller than a PCI >Ethernet card? Which option would give me better performance? if I >have only 1 PCI slot left? Use PCI SCSI and a good ISA Ethernet card - max SCSI data rate is substantially greater than max Ethernet data rate. You can get close to 100% ethernet throughput with an ISA card such as SMC Ultra.