On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 12:40:05PM +1200, schmitz wrote: > Ingo, > >Thanks for picking it up and hosting it! :-) > > Thanks to Adrian for giving it a new home, and let's not forget to > thank you for hosting it all this time! yup! > >>- replace the system disk with a new 250GB or 500GB drive > > > >Remember that AmigaOS is still 3.1 and it should stay that way. > >So, while it's no problem to replace the 40 GB disk by a larger > >one (it just needs some time), IDE is still slow on A4000s and we > >should prefer SCSI disks for performance reasons anyway. Actually, > >there is not really need for >40 GB disks, IMHO. > > The system disk won't need that much space - even for the buildd > chroots and scratch space we won't quite need as much. But let's not > forget the old IDE disks will wear out some time, and a new disk > might be what keeps elgar running a bit longer. > > Christian had procured IDE to SCSI adapters years ago - not sure > these are still available for sale anywhere. That would be about the > only option to hook up a large disk via SCSI. (We'd also need to > test and debug the SCSI driver, of course).
They are EXPENSIVE... I can't believe that I paid 100EUR per piece. But nowadays you want SATA-IDE adapters, they run at about the same price, I think they were from acard. Sorry, I don't have my bookmarks here, I just arrived in Thun. And suddenly things don't seem so expensive anymore ;-) Other IDE options are the CF-IDE (or SD-IDE) converters, remember, the one I use to resurrect my Falcon? For booting that should work, but of cource not for chroot storage. > Concur - we had a break-in into kullervo or crest at some stage a > few years back, and that was through exim. Better make it accept > mail from a smarthost only. Do we have a smarthost for that? At the moment kullervo can receive email directly. Well, through a couple of hoops, but I am not running fetchmail on kullervo. I thought that when kullervo returns to NMMN, I would return to the old setup, since I do not have a mail server on the NMMN network. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130609155107.gb7...@chumley.earth.sol
