On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote: bs7452 >I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers bs7452 >so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower bs7452 >computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't bs7452 >require much from the processor. Is that right? Also, are there any
yep thats right bs7452 >minimum requirements? The computer is a Gateway P166 with 32MB of EDO bs7452 >ram. It will boot from an IDE drive, but the files that will be bs7452 >available from the server will all be on the SCSI drive. Sorry this bs7452 >isn't entirely Debian-related, but I use Debian and I want to install bs7452 >Debian on this computer, too. I'm thinking of buying a 9.1GB IBM bs7452 >Ultrastar 18ES and an Adaptec 2940U2W U2W/S host adapter. Thanks in bs7452 >advance for any input. no minimum requirements for scsi, just need a system compadible with the scsi card. most boards have no problems with adaptec cards, those that might usually are fixed with bios updates. scsi will for sure improve I/O performance for file serving. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:22am up 160 days, 22:29, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 1.06, 1.00