> 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)
Yes, but 486 got more chances if being broken, really depends on your luck (I had to replace four 486 boards few years ago in a period of 8 months) > B) you could buy a used P-II board (or a complete machine) for real > cheap Anyone sells one? > C) perhaps it's a hard-drive failure and not a mo-bo problem? No, 3 hard drives, all same problems, power supply replaced 3 times. > 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)) Ok, I'll think about it. > 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?)? 128. diskette/cd distro won't help as it's also my web and mail server. > I'll let you know if I think of anything else... > These are just the ideas that popped up now. Those cheap boards today (like from VIA etc) are really attractive, it's the DAMN Linux driver that doesn't support the fax stuff :( Hetz ================================================================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]
