On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:14:13 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > I didn't mean that- I'm sure I can figure out > > pluggin a card into the PCI slot > > > and adding drives. It's more I don't know > > what controllers are good, etc. > > > > Adaptec makes good SCSI controllers. Symbios > > are not bad either. Not > > sure about any of the others. > > Will check. Is the Adaptec 29160N good? I found it for $134, which seems > reasonable.
As someone else already remarked, that's overkill for a tape drive taht will never do any fast IO. If you plan to purchase SCSI drives, then sure, its a good investment, otherwise, its a complete waste. Kinda like putting a 2x CDROM drive on an IDE UDMA-133 controller. > > I don't know anything about Seagate tape drives > > (they might be good, they > > might be bad). SONY are pretty good. > > Maybe the SDT-9000? It seems to have 12G/24G, which should be plenty big > enough, and costs $359 at componentsdirect.com That's a good model. > > > Should I trust the Bootit NG partition table > > readout? I find it kind of odd > > > that Bootit has a partition table for the > > drive, as does WindeXP, but Linux > > > doesn't. > > > > Right now, you've got nothing, so you don't > > have much of a choice but to > > trust this 'bootit NG' thing (i have no clue > > what that is). Take your > > chances, roll the dice, and hope for the best. > > OK, I created the partitions according to Bootit NG's information. I was able > to mount normally from my rescue CD, and everything was there. However, when > I booted normally (i.e. from the hard disk), the partition was no longer > there, and I had to reenter everything into fdisk again, and there again was > my data. What's next? Well, i kinda suspect your kernel is horked if the partition table is getting hosed every time you boot off of it. Do you have a 2.4.x kernel that you could boot the drive off of? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
