Well, I gave it a try, set up the machine as follows
SDA 4.3 GB / and swap
SDB 2.1 GB /home
SDC 4.3 GB /home/data
SDD 2.1 GB /backup
SDE 2.1 GB /home/data/mp3
SDF CDROM /mnt/cdrom
booted with the bootable CD in the CD-ROM drive after disabling all IDE
drivers
Poof. Detected a bootable CD in the CD-ROM drive and booted to it with no
problems. I haven't finished doing all the updates I need yet, nor have I
installed all the drivers I require, but so far, I can't complain one
bit. It seems to run quite stable.
One thing that I was wondering about is whether or not there are some apps
similar to hdparm for SCSI drives. This runs fairly fast as ReiserFS, but
I'm almost certain it could run much faster.
As for a CD-R/RW drive. I haven't got enough power in that power supply
to handle another device, nor do I have any bays to put it. Besides, I do
most of my vacking up to /backup, which I then duplicate on my server at
home.
Thanks
> My 29030C Ultra narrow is bootable but I've never seen anything about the
> 2940UW regard bootability. Given how difficult it is to get any info from
> adaptec that's not obviously on their web site, I would just plug the sucker
> into your box, connect a cdrom drive (a scsi cdrom drive 8-)), fire the
> sucker up and put the mandrake 7.2 cd in while it boots and see if it
> recognizes it. It will be most obvious if it works.
>
> Tom Berkley
>
> PS
> If you get a cd burner, most definitely pay the extra bucks and get a scsi.
> You will be most happy with scsi even though your wallet suffered a little.
>
> Anthony Russello wrote:
>
> > Hey everybody,
> >
> > I have recently come into aquisition of an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter.
> >
> > I'll most likely be making use of this with my next installation of
> > Mandrake. Until then, everything works with my old PCI SCSI card in there
> > now.
> >
> > My main concern is that I intend to completely remove IDE from the system
> > and replace it all with a collection of SCSI har ddrives and a CD-ROM
> > drive. But will I be able to boot from that SCSI CD-ROM drive?
> >
> > Currently, in one of the older servers I picked up (A dell 4100/200) I
> > noticed that during bootup, it actually pops up a message stating that a
> > bootable CD was found in the CD-ROM drive. It's using an onboard adaptec
> > 7880 SCSI adapter.
> >
> > I am curious to know if I would receive the same message while bootup
> > detects SCSI devices, prior to the installation of Linux.. What I'm
> > hoping is this;
> >
> > Boot machine
> > detects SCSI devices and powers them up
> > detects the CD-ROM drive
> > detects that there is a bootable CD in the CD-ROM drive
> > begins installation
> >
> > What are the odds of this occuring on this 2940 UW card?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > There's plenty of semicolons to go around
>
>
There's plenty of semicolons to go around
