Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:32:27AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > 2) Should I be worried about the heat of a 7200 RPM drive ? > >This box has nothing more than the power supply fan, and > >the CPU fan to keep things cool. Also, the HD cage of this > >case is really tigh

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 22:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only > > notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in > > it, but am wondering about th

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Graham/Aniartia
On Saturday 16 March 2002 4:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only > notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in > it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the > huge ha

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 22:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only > notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in > it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the > huge hard dr

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:50:25 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > > I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only >notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in >it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the >huge hard

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Craig Sampson
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:50:25 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) Will the kernel be able to see a 20-100 GB drive if the >BIOS > can't see it ? Last time I checked, the kernel >wasn't > bothered by the BIOS's limitations, but last time I >checked, > a ten

OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-15 Thread ye416
Hi, I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the huge hard drives that are on the market. Specifically, 1)

big drives...

2000-02-01 Thread Danny Heap
We are considering a scsi tape drive for our debian alpha. Has anbody used HP T24i DAT drives? Can I assume that it understands standard scsi tape driver commands, and works with mt and tar/dump /dev/nst0 or whatever? On a related note, has anybody used the large IDE hard drives (20, 28, 36 GB?)