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Jordan K. Hubbard 1996-08-24 10:18:50 +00:00
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<!-- $Id: hw.sgml,v 1.37 1996-08-18 17:04:40 jkh Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: hw.sgml,v 1.38 1996-08-24 10:18:50 jkh Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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therefore buy one of the newer Triton II based motherboards, which offer
both better performance and parity checking.
<p>At the even higher end, the Intel/Venus Pro (VS440FX) motherboard
appears to work very well with FreeBSD, as does its accompanying 200Mhz
P6 (Pentium Pro) CPU. Recent price drops (pluments might be a more
accurate term) have dropped P6 systems into a very affordable price
bracket, at least in the United States, and for serious server
applications you may wish to look no further than one of these.
<sect2><heading>Disk Controllers</heading>
<p>This one is a bit trickier, and while I used to recommend the
<htmlurl url="http://www.buslogic.com" name="Buslogic"> controllers
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occupy the lower end of the market, due to their higher price) and you
probably won't go wrong with an HP or NEC SCSI CDROM drive either.
<sect2><heading>CD Recordable (WORM) drives</heading>
<p>At the time of this writing, FreeBSD supports 3 types of CDR drives
(though I believe they all ultimately come from Phillips anyway):
The Phillips CDD 522 (Acts like a Plasmon), the PLASMON RF4100 and
the HP 4020i. I myself use the HP 4020i for burning CDROMs (with
2.2-current - it does not work with 2.1.5 or earlier releases of the
SCSI code) and it works very well. See <htmlurl
url="file:/usr/share/examples/worm" name="/usr/share/examples/worm">
on your 2.2 system for example scripts used to created ISO9660
filesystem images (with RockRidge extensions) and burn them onto an
HP4020i CDR.
<sect2><heading>Tape drives</heading>
<p>I've had pretty good luck with both
<htmlurl url="http://www.Exabyte.COM:80/Products/8mm/8505XL/Rfeatures.html"