Hi all,
By the way, thanks for all the suggestions on the linux versions. I
went against my better judgement and just stuck with Fedora, mainly
because I'm familiar with it. I have to admit, I kind of like it. I was
able to get it up and running, run nfs to mount local drives, and
install all the necessary crystallography software with no hitch -
quick. It's kind of nice. And it set up my wireless printer
automatically - so all is great.
Anyway, we have an old Indigo SGI that runs our NMR. It's a console
only system, and we access it via the network from another old SGI
(toaster model - blue). The console does not have a video card (nor
space for one), so I can't plug in to it and see what's happening.
Anyway, our network was recently updated, and in doing so it has made
access to our console system unavailable. We can't get there because
the IP's that used to be needed are no more.
So, I can get the disk out, and I have a variety of unix/linux systems
that I could plug it in to. But, alas, I have no motherboards or
systems that take SCSI (that I have a sled for or a way to put it in). I
need to be able to mount the drive on some sort of system, edit a few
config files to fix the network, then plug it all back in. All without
messing up boot tables and such (not a big deal, just thought I'd throw
that out there).
Is there a cable that simply allows me to plug in the back of a SCSI
drive then connect to an IDE port on a newer motherboard (or better yet,
an external USB port)? Just curious - that would be worth it to me.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Dave
