Subject: Re: Need hardware advice
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/03/2001 17:13:28
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:48:17PM +0200, wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net wrote:
> > 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

How do you figure?
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
           On the community of supercomputer fans:
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  from Steve Gombosi, comp.sys.super, 31 Jul 2000 11:22:43 -0600