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Building a perfect scsi system:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Johannes)
Wed Jun 4 01:29:32 1997
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 00:17:55 -0500
From: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Hello folks,
I come to you guys begging for more advice, I've begged for it before,
but I want even more now. I realize that what I'm considering to do may
be a bit too ambitious, but perhaps you guys can bring me to reality.
I'm embarking on building a "perfect scsi" system, as far as the price
will let me go. So far, I have gotten an ibm ultrastar 2ES ultra scsi
disk, and an adaptec 2940 ultra scsi adapter. I've a monitor and
cd-rom. I want to put together everything else from scratch. I'm
thinking of building this with a pentium II 233mhz processor. This is
the layout:
get a motherboard, pentium II processor, memory(32 megs), video card
(s3 virge 4megs, 'cause it is only $60), modem, ATX case/power supply,
keyboard/mouse, floppy drive, sound card.
Does the motherboard usually come with internal cables (e.g, for serial
ports, or ide drives) Is there something you see wrong with the above
layout? Did I leave something out? I've calculated the total to come
to about $1744; the cheapest system I've seen around with pentium II
chip is $2145. Any ideas/comments against building my own system, any
suggestions to what motherboard brand I should use, or any, any comment
of any nature about this layout would be very, very appreciated, believe
me.
Patiently waiting.
robert johannes
