> If VLB means Vesa Long Bus, then yes, that would describe the SCSI
adapter.
> It worked under slackware and RH 6.0, but magically started barfing up at
> boot when I went to 6.2 and up. Also (ifyou can believe it) had Windows
95
> and 98 on it until I opted for Linux. I usually started booting when I
got
> up and it would be done by the time I was finished with shower and
> breakfast. Chug chug chug.
HHmm. You got me thinking now.
The customer I helped out with that adapter - did I put RH 6.0, 6.1 or 6.2
on it? I can't remember. When was the kernel upgraded in which version?
Maybe it was RedHat 6.0 that was working. Maybe it is a kernel issue.
That's a few maybes I know, but if it is a kernel issue, I'm pretty much
lost. I'm great with hardware, but still too much of a Linux newbie to aid
too much in the way Linux works.
One thing I will say though. The customer I'm talking about has mixed
IDE/SCSI. There is only a very little difference in speeds though. I've also
found that newer hard drives spinning at 7200rpm (yes, even at non-dma
modes) are faster than the old SCSI-2 drives. If you're looking for a huge
speed increase, it really will depend on the makes and models of the drives
you have in there. Just because the Adaptec can hoon at 40Mb/s, doesn't
necessarily mean the drive will be able to match that.
>
> I didn't know about the jumpered floppy drivers. I'll have to look over
> that more closely. If I can get the IDE floppy driver working, great.
Then
> i can remove the scsi card and not worry about it. But I was kinda hoping
> to get the speed gains from using the scsi drive and use the ide hd in a
> nice little RAID setup. Oh well.
See my note above.
> About the installation, I used the network boot disk image created with
> rawrite in DOS. I wiped the HD clean with disk druid and did a fresh RH
7.0
> FTP install. Worked great, even though it took 10 hours!
Yep, that should be OK. I installed with CD (just booted from it), and I
don't have the install issues you're talking about, but I'm sure you way you
did it is OK too. Anyone like to contend that?
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