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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!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: EIDE support? (possible dumb question) Date: 23 Oct 1996 22:36:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <54m6lo$s7t@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53tsln$3je@harvey.cs.umd.edu> <54de6g$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> <54j9n6$9pv@harvey.cs.umd.edu> 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 jerryw@cs.umd.edu (Jerry Wieber) wrote: > I appreciate your input, but the premium for a Pentium Pro is less > than what you would think, especially in the U.S. I'm paying about > $1650 for 180MHz system w/o monitor and graphics card. I do intend > to get a PCI SCSI card as well, but going SCSI will cost at least > another $400, and it's easier to upgrade to SCSI than upgrade the > motherboard and CPU. But _upgrading_ SCSI will cost you another disk. Using SCSI in the first place will cost $ 100 more for the disk (perhaps even nothing if you find a vendor who still sells identical disks for the same price), and another $ 100 for the NCR (SymBios) 53c810. This should be less than the price of another disk. I think even using an old AHA1540 temporarily until you upgrade the SCSI controller to a modern part will be better than starting with IDE (since you can already get the final disk then, and will still have better performance by not wasting that much CPU). -- 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. ;-)