Shamun Mahmud writes: > i am building a new desktop. been using the hcl as guidance. have a tyan > m/b and two amd opterons, along with 2 gbs of ram. which dvd+-rw drive would > the folks on this distribution recommend? what about hard drives and > controllers?
I haven't been able to locate ones that _don't_ work. As for brands, I like the Lite-On and Plextor DVD drives, Seagate and WD for hard disk drives, and Adaptec for controllers ... but I doubt this is significant. SCSI and SAS seem to be faster than ATA and SATA. As I said, though, I haven't been able to find ones that don't work. (Things that may or may not to work, and might require more caution, are exotics like hardware RAID. There are supported hardware RAID devices from Areca, DPT, and LSI. Others may need to be put in a compatibility mode to work. I prefer software RAID anyway for flexibility reasons.) It shouldn't be this hard ... -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[email protected]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
