Re:Hardware Compatibility

[Travis Dockweiler <tdockweiler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:15 PM 2/4/99 -0500, you wrote:

>>AMD K6-2 processor (probably 350 or 400 MHz)
>>128Meg of RAM

>Whatever, Linux scream on my Pentium I 200MHz.  A friend uses a fast 80486
>on which all his applications cook right along.  You best bet for performance
>is to get whatever processor you want but pour your money into Ram and fast
>(non-IDE I/O).  My (limited, but not scant) experience tells me that 128Mb
>of RAM per-processor seems to be the cut of in the bang-for-buck contest.  Go
>SMP (which means Intel only) if you REALLY NEED power.  Otherwise a K6 or
>whatever will make you quite happy for ordinary or even pretty heavy stuff.

>>Epox MVP3G-M Motherboard (as recommended by www.anandtech.com)
>
>Shouldn't be a problem.
>
>>Matrox Marvel G200 TV Video Card. (I don't expect the TV out to be
supported, but would like to use it for more than 16 colors.)
>
>Sorry, don't know much about graphics cards.
>
>>Sound Blaster Live! (again, I don't expect ALL the bells and whistles,
just functional sound.)
>
>See the hardware compatibility page at Redhat.
>http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/rh52-hardware-intel-13.html
>
>>Internal Zip drive.
>
>No problem.  But I think the LS-120 is more cost effective to accomplish the
>same thing.  The media is cheaper I believe,  looked into it awhile ago.

>>the only other thing that wouldn't be standard might be a SCSI interface,
but I haven't decided if the performance is worth the bucks.
>
>What bucks?  SCSI is cheap these days.  I got my gear from www.onsale.com.
>An UW controller for $50 and a standard for $30.  Plus a 4.5gb drive for
>no more than the cost of a good IDE.  It seems to me the QC applied to 
>SCSI drives is much higher than to IDE, and that itself is worth the money.
>I say do it.

I've asked this to a few people on IRC but they thought i was just plain
stupid and didn't know anything. but what would be the major advantage of 
a SCSI drive at 40mb/sec over a udma/33 drive at 33mb/s. I don't know a
whole lot about SCSI, so i really don't know.

but i think if i was to switch over to scsi i think i'd want to go with
scsi wide ultra2 or whatever it's called now. or is it even worth it?
does a cheap wide ultra2 scsi actually exist?

i don't know why but i get all this scsi stuff confused, scsi, scsi-2, scsi
ultra wide, ultra2 scsi...