On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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?
Yea, that's well suited for a tape drive, or any other device that has slow IO. But don't plan to use it for harddrives, or the performance will suck (something like 20mb/s). Look here for details: http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/suppbyproduct.html?sess=no&cat=/Technology/SCSI+Host+Adapters&fromPage=supportindex > > 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 3 hours for a good kernel, or how many hours rebuilding? Can't you just copy the kernel onto the HD, and boot off it natively? > 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? THe kernel image? If the kernel image was corrupted, the system wouldn't boot, period. It sounds like your partition table is getting hosed. Whoa, you have an IBM drive? You realize what a horrible track record those things have, right? Maybe your drive is bad afterall. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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
