On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:06:32PM -0700, Sam wrote: > > I have reached a storage conundrum, i have a dual p3 server 1gbit ram > running off a 9 gig scsi as well as 4 ide hdd's totalling 1.5Terabytes. The > problem is: I cannot afford scsi drives and i have used up all 4 ide slots. > I am trying to plan for expansion, I happen to have a promise ultra ata 66 > pci card with two ide slots. My question being what is necessary to install > this promise card? I tried googling but there was nothing but "debian not > recognizing hard disks, using promise card" etc, nothing about installing > the card on a boxen that already has debian on it. > > As a side note, if anyone has any other suggestions for expansion, feel free > to field them, as I am not set in my ways ;)
Why not install a SATA card (PATA cables block too much air flow, among other problems), and you don't get into the master/slave controller contention issues with SATA. This gives you lots of expansion options. I don't know about brands of cards. My MB has 7 SATA ports. Check out addonics.com. Their products that work with linux are listed as working with linux. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
