On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, jingai wrote: > Just thought I'd post this, in case anyone is interested.. I've had > trouble finding decent-priced SCSI drives that had built-in > termination (do they even exist anymore?!?), so after going thru
Do you mean `decent-priced SCSI drives' or `built-in termination'? :-) I thought my Quantum Viking II had the second property. > three different drives, I decided I'd do something a little nutty... > ..I went down to the local PC wholesale shop thing and got > myself a Promise Ultra100 PCI card and an 20GB IDE drive > (the two together were $150...... sure beat the $260 for a > SCSI drive of the same size). I was certain it wouldn't work, > but lo and behold, it was probably one of the least painful > things I've installed in a while :) Two sets of kernel patches > (Michel Lanner's PCI patches and Hedrik's IDE patches), > one kernel build, and bingo, works like a charm. Not to Congrats! > mention it's loads faster than my SCSI drives (mostly > because they are on the int MESH SCSI controller, and > I didn't feel like shelling out $300 for a good SCSI > controller). Needless to say, 13MB/s is not *that* bad, > and 20GB for $150 ($105 for the drive) just can't be > beat. Take a look at http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/PPC/History.html for a comparison between MESH (it really sucks) and a good but cheap UW-SCSI (Sym53c875, I paid about 100 EUR two years ago; no need to pay three times as much for Adaptec). But the IDE solution will still be cheaper... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
