2008/11/15 H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adrian Levi wrote: >> 2008/11/7 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> What size hard drives have you had your box recognize? My box is an IBM >>> and its BIOS baulks at many 8GB drives and all larger ones. >> >> I had a 486DX4-120 32MB running as my firewall / storage file server > > I have slightly modern machine, but old by today's standards. It has 350 > MB RAM. I am wondering if your file server was able to work properly on > your hardware. Did you NAS with users' home directories on this server? > Any insights how that would be affected by the host computer's RAM and > hardware? If it is feasible from resources point of view of my old > router machine, I would like to host all users' home directories there.
No the other box was a windows machine, I used the storage as a samba share like a dumping ground for media. Worked well although it was slow. I had by way of cards in the box 2x 10MB AT Bus 10base2 and 10baseT 1x dual ide controller card. (boot drive, storage drive, cd rom) It was slow but could saturate the network link with sustained 850kb/s, it was fast enough, still by todays standards it would be ok for smaller files and still fast enough as my router/firewall as my cable is capped at 10MB/s. -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
