Subject: Re: Need hardware advice
To: maxime bizon <maxime.bizon@epita.fr>
From: None <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/03/2001 22:48:17
> some help about the hardware.
> 
> We would like to buy the newest scsi drive but it seems 
> every hard drive are now Ultra 160, so is there any scsi
> card supported by Netbsd that support this type ?
every adaptec should work IMGO. 
> About the hard drive itself it seems that Seagate new 
> Cheetah (15000 rpm) are the fastest one, but it's an
> Ultra 160... any suggestion about a very fast scsi harddrive
> that could word on netbsd ?

any SCSI or IDE hard drive would work with netbsd if controller works.

i recommend you to buy 2 or 4 fast IDE drives for the price of 1 SCSI
drive and configure it stripped. will be faster