On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:34:10 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 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'm considering getting SCSI drives at some point. My father's getting a new
computer at work, and might be able to talk the tech guys into letting him
take the Adaptec 2930 card out of his current system. Would that be a good
solution until I got SCSI hard disks?
> > 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.
OK, I'll start saving up.
> 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?
Unfortunately, no. When I got the new motherboard, I tried 2.4.19-xfs, and it
never picked up the existence of my Highpoint 374, so I switched to 2.5
kernels. For some reason 2.4.19-gentoo-r7 works fine (the one on the rescue
CD), but that's actually a patched 2.4.18 kernel, and I'm not in the mood to
tie up the internet for 3 hours downloading the 2.4.18 sources. This kernel
used to work quite wonderfully before. Could I have corrupted the image
somehow? Is it time to replace the IBM Deathstar 60GXP 20GB I use as a boot
drive?
thanks
Bob Raymond
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