Subject: Re: 8500 with teeny 1gig SCSI drive (uhg)
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 14 2001 - 18:08:26 MST
The 8500, along with all previous Macs can take SCSI-II drives which
max out at 9GB. You can also get external SCSI drives for your
machine; up to 160GB if you can afford it.
Next, your filesystem can fit nicely on a 1GB drive. But, you could
split your filesystem up between a hundred drives if you really wanted
to. Of course, for some room you may want to place your /home
elsewhere, like an external drive.
--- Sean
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Julia Jacobs wrote:
> (WARNING - NEWBIE ALERT)
> I want to put YDL on my 8500 180mhz PPC, but its got a miniscule 1GB SCSI
> drive. I can only stick SCSI 1 drives in that machine which only get as
> large as 2GB (sob). There's a USB card and an Ethernet Card leaving one PCI
> slot open. What can I do to make this machine a decent box to test Linux
> apps on so that I donšt install stuff on my commercial Linux server and
> crash it, pissing all of my current hosting clients off?
> Any suggestions that won't require me having to get a second mortgage on my
> house?
>
> Julia 'I need to learn Linux badly' Jacobs
>
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