>...I thought about buying one of those no-name OEM boards with the slowest >processor available, minimum RAM... > >...an ISA Fax Modem inside which I thought originally to use as a fax gateway... > >Any suggestions from people?
A) wouldn't a 486 be good enough as a Linux fax server? (I guess your problem is there are no ISA slots on today's boards) B) you could buy a used P-II board (or a complete machine) for real cheap C) perhaps it's a hard-drive failure and not a mo-bo problem? D) if it is a mo-bo problem, maybe an ISA IDE controller would solve the problem disable the on-board one? (I have some I was going to throw away - let me know if you need it) (P.S. try disabling the primary IDE controller and using ONLY the secondary (irq 15)) E) If its only a fax server perhaps you could run some diskette / cd distro that loads up to a ram drive.. (How much ram do you have there?)? I'll let you know if I think of anything else... These are just the ideas that popped up now. Tal. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
