Re: good bang for buck machines?

• To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
• Subject: Re: good bang for buck machines?
• From: Hugh Greene <q@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
• Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 03:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Division of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
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• Reply-To: Hugh Greene <q@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
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On Sun, 21 May 2000, Bruce Hoult wrote:
> Hi fellow Dylan hackers,
> 
> I'm looking at replacing my trusty Pentium Pro 200 linux machine ...
> ...  And now that Apple doesn't use SCSI drives any more their price has
> headed for the stratosphere relative to IDE which makes having an
> all-SCSI machine a dubious proposition when you've got enough RAM that
> you don't do any real disk I/O anyway... 

I don't have any specific machine advice but, FYI, I discovered a while
ago that there are a few companies out there selling (PCI?) cards with
extra master-&-slave IDE channels on them (can't remember any company
names offhand).  So you don't need to worry quite as much about using up
all 4 default IDE channels, making IDE even more attractive for home
machines :-)

Hugh

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