> Behalf Of Chad Fernandez > > What about some sort of Raid configuration? I don't know much about > Raid, but doesn't it end up looking like one drive? I would imagine > that he would need a hardware upgrade,
Yes, Raid is an option and I believe I would need a hardware upgrade. The thing is I am not looking to put any kind of money into this ancient 486, proprietary system. If I can pull it off with bits I have lying around great, if I can't I would probably just go out and buy one of those current 40gig drives for the PIII. Price per meg is so cheap. > as I think he has Adaptec SCSI, Yes I do, same as yours, I forget the model, 71xx I believe. > and would need a Mylex card to get hardware Raid capabilities. See above. > > How about using Linux? Would Linux make it any easier on him? John, I > think I recall you wanting to run Linux on this machine correct? Yes I do, Linux is on my list of learns. It has been for a while. I got as far as installing it once on a different machine. It had problems with my video car. I search quite a few places on the net and came up with "Video card unsupported". I then realized this was not something I was going to just install and learn as I went. I knew I would have to devote some serious time to it and that was the end of that experiment. I haven't had a chance to devote the time. I picked 95 because I new it would run on the hardware. I had it available and it was sooo easy. The > Jukebox software wouldn't have to be on the same computer as the MP3's > right? Correct. > > This interests me, since I would like to do a similar thing as well. I > didn't think I would fill up more than 8gigs, but if John did, so might > I. I ripped at the 160K rate and ~200 cds. Many thanks everyone for all the great suggestions. I just may give Linux a go again. If I do how will windozs clients access the files???? Hmmm I remember something about Samba or something like that. Utto, here comes another one of those long learning curves. ;) John PS the 486 UNISYS server case is built like a __tank__ and comes with a whopping 330 watt power supply. They don't make them like that anymore. Chad knows, he probably took out his back trying to lift the empty case ;-). To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
