Re: suggestions for udb

[Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh jps net>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Shane Sturrock wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Danilo Godec wrote:
> 
> > In my opinion alpha is not an option for low-end market. That means
> > anything comparable to Celeron machines (or even PII/III) is way too
> > expensive on alpha platform.
> 
> For the less than $1000 market yes, Alpha is not really an option unless
> you are willing to hunt down a motherboard/CPU combination and put the
> thing together for yourself.
> 
> > This is especially due to bad IDE support (I have a 164SX), which means
> 
> I thought that was fixed?
> 
> IDE performance on the LX is excellent.
> 
> > you need to get expensive SCSI card (cause el'cheapo cards don't work well
> > with Alpha/Linux), SCSI hard disk, cdrom, burner etc. if you want to enjoy
> 
> This is true, I had a hell of a time finding a SCSI card that would work
> on my Alpha.  Ended up getting an Adaptec 2940UW because that is what we
> have on our systems at work.  However, I also have 25GB of IDE drives in
> my box and performance is not bad at all.
>
Hmm, I bought some Tekram DC-390F Ultrawide Symbios 53C875 based
controllers awhile ago for about $75 US each.  I have a PC164 machine and
this card works great in it.  SRM will let me boot from the controller,
whereas ARC sees it, but can't find the devices on it.  Tru64 will also
work on the card, as will Free/NetBSD and, of course, Linux.
>
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Dirk