Subject: Re: Upgrading an 8500 for YDL Install!
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 04:07:32 MST
I've had a Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA66 (for Mac) working perfectly in a 9600
and supporting a 30Gb drive for months now. I'm not sure whether you can
boot Linux from it but it may be possible since the card emulates SCSI
under MacOS. It works as a standard ATA controller with Linux.
Iain
--On Saturday, December 15, 2001 18:07:19 +1100 Irena and Richard Jenkins
<rjenkins@pop.alphalink.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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 don¹t 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
>
> Can I ask: Why are you limited to 1 Gig SCSI hard drives.? At our local
> second hand computer markets there is a "flood" of 4.3 Gig drives ... all
> with 50 pin connectors ... for around the $AUS 100 mark. New users want
> 9 or 18 Gig units but these are almost always ultra-fast/wide units ...
> with 68 or 80 pin connectors. Can I suggest you advertise on ebay for
> 50-pin SCSI hard drives (4 gig plus). Quality drives from Seagate, IBM,
> and HewlettpPackard, etc ... are available. If you get a SCSI-2 drive
> ... then apple firmware will adjust to use it.
>
> I am also going to follow up that remark by one of your correspondents
> that you can fit a suitable pci controller card for ATA66 or ATA100
> drives (IDE) and then take advantage of the cheap prices of IDE hard
> drives. Before I take the plunge I want to know what brand/model of
> controller to buy!! New 30 and 40 Gig IDE drives are less that $AUS
> 200 ... so with another $AUS60 for the controller ... that's still a
> cheap upgrade.
>
> However my latest second hand Seagate cost $AUS55 posted to me here in
> Canberra. Too cheap to pass up!
>
> Currently ($AUS1= 52 cents US!!)
> --
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Irena and Richard Jenkins VK1NDV & VK1RJ
> Canberra, AUSTRALIA
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
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