I didn't even know Intel made a NIC till Michael Miller mentioned it. It makes sense, Intel CPU with a Intel MB, etc., as you mentioned before.
That Raid is an on-board Promise chipset. I don't want headaches. Are you saying that if it works, it could be spotty; or, are you saying that if it works, and I leave it alone, it will be ok? These dual Seagate drives in a raid 1 is my backup strategy for all of my work. It cannot be flaky! This Grad student has 10+ years of Linux experience. He says that OS X has excellent integration with FOSS. He gives me the impression that he knows his stuff. I took a hammer to that 40G Maxtor and thru it in the trash. I got a 30G Maxtor that occasionally squeals like chalk on a blackboard at startup. I use it as a second drive to hold oggs. An IT guy told me it was a spindle issue, the 40G made a couple of clicks and that was it. It was dead on reboot. So, what are you doing building a wall? Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mr O Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 6:58 PM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: RE: [Eug-lug] been out of touch FWIW, Realtek 8139's almost always work with the exception of the occasional D-Link. Of course, as stated before, you go Intel on your NIC and you can't go wrong. You really trust a CS grad student to tell you what to buy? Eek. Hope that RAID isn't onboard. Don't expect it to be pretty if it is. Just like modems, if it ain't hardware based, don't waste too much time on it. As for drives, if they were the slimline Maxtor drives I'll take them. My collection is only about 20 right now. Not quite enough to create something with yet. That be all, Mr O. --- Brian Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was unclear. Ubuntu loves the Realtek (RTL8139.) I was > laughing about > the Netgear (FA310TX.) I have three of those so I'm glad to > hear that they > work. I had a problem with the FA310TX and FC2 a while back > where it was > taking 15 min for Samba to find the Windows shared file. > > Recently I was telling my neighbor about my success with > Ubuntu and his > gamer friend stated matter-o-factly "Samba is historically > spotty." O, now > you tell me! These CS grad students have convinced me that my > next computer > will be a MAC laptop. > I already have the final implementation hardware: ASUS > AV7333 /w RAID > support, dual 160GB seagate drives, etcetera. I had a hard > drive crash a > year ago and lost some data. That's what I get for buying > Maxtor. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
