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diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/hw.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/hw.sgml index 87c43e6..1e4dc6d 100644 --- a/share/doc/handbook/hw.sgml +++ b/share/doc/handbook/hw.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $Id: hw.sgml,v 1.36 1996/08/12 11:48:46 peter Exp $ --> +<!-- $Id: hw.sgml,v 1.37 1996/08/18 17:04:40 jkh Exp $ --> <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project --> <!-- @@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ Slippery when wet. Beware of dog. 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 @@ -106,6 +113,18 @@ Slippery when wet. Beware of dog. 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" |
