Just check the manufacturer's web page - it may still be under warranty. Anyway - smoothwall is a firewall distro. I doubt you'll want your backups sent to the firewall because its probably in the same building as the main machine. Or is it in the garage like mine?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 September 2004 8:18 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hi Guys I'm currently running a Linux based "smooth wall" (firewall) computer and I'm wanting to install an old 30gb drive just so I can use it as a last resort backup storage area. The first thing is that the drive has some bad sectors that are not all detected. It picks up a few but once you starting writing to it runs into problems. so to get around these bad sectors I want to partition in the "good" areas. I have identified the "good" and "Bad" sections of the drive using a simple read speed test. >From the web forums on smoothwall I require the partitions to be in ext3 format. Am I able to simply format the drive as 4 partitions I guess 1 in the primary and the other 3 in the logical? (I'm using partition magic on the win pc) Am i going about this correctly? Once I have the drive installed how do I mount the drives into the file system? cheers Lance Frater
