On 20031112.1850, Mr O said ... > Um, here I am. You shouldn't have any real trouble booting off > your PCI card. As long as the BIOS sees it as a boot device > you're in good hands. Linux will just see your drives as > /dev/hde or higher. As for booting from SCSI it loads the > drivers during the boot. The SCSI BIOS handles getting the drive > going. Linux just needs to know where it is from there (ie: > /dev/sda).
My latest idea is to use the 6GB disk that's in there as the /boot, swap, and backup drive. Then the new drive as the OS and web directory drive on a PCI card. > As for attaining full UDMA 100, keep dreaming. Unless > you're striping a couple drives with 8Mb cache you'll never see > near that performance. Kbob achieved over 90Mb/s that way. On > average a 2Mb cache drive will yield about 40Mb/s and an 8Mb > cache drive will yield upwards of 60Mb/s by itself. I didn't really mean actual throughput. Just that my motherboard has UDMA33 and I wanted to use the drive in UDMA100 mode, and I can't get that unless I use a PCI card with a new chipset. > If your BIOS actually sees 20GB then it should see at least > 32GB. In most systems that was the next barrier after 8GB. You > may just need to 'fdisk' the drive to see how much the OS sees > and experiment. Interesting. I'll have to toy with it again. Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
