From: htoaster@yabbs
To: washbord@yabbs
Subject: re: BSD...
Date: Thu Mar 24 17:32:16 1994

A high speed bus isn't go to buy you a whole lot under BSD, with the exception
of a faster disk controller.  However the extra cost of an EISA motherboard
plus a 1742 (eisa scsi controller) probably won't be worth it.  The main thing
that high speed busses really help in is video, but since I doubt that you'll
be running X on the thing (or even have anything more than a mono card in it)
I wouldn't worry about it.  You can get vesa and eisa ide controllers that are
faster, but i wouldn't run ide in the system if i were you (all of the recent
crashes on phred have been related to the ide system in the machine and bad
interactions between ide, the system, multiple ide drives, and the somewhat
lacking ide driver in free/netbsd).  IDE is also much slower under multitasking
systems, unless someone sells a DMA based IDE card at this point...

alex