Re: questions

[Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>]

At 03:51 AM 28/03/03, Bob Schmidt sent this up the stick:
> Well here we go, I just aquired a DEC 433au with 256mb of ram. It doesn't
> have a hard drive, I have a 20gb ide I was going to put in it.  It does have
> the scsi controller, but I don't have a scsi hard drive for it yet because I
> don't know how many pins it has.  I am planning on putting debian 3 on it.
> Are there any issues I should be aware of before I start (I get my 433au on
> Monday).

I have a PWS 500au.  They use a QLogic 1040, 68 pin ultra-scsi card.  It's 
built in to the riser card.  I have two 9 Gig drives in mine, a Compaq and 
an IBM, so disk compatibility is not really an issue.  IDE performance is 
below par for these boxes too.

>  Also, (dumb question) what kind of modems will work in these
> machines?  The only pci modems I have are winmodems, I got them to work in
> linux on my pc, but will they work in a 433au.  I also have a 56k ISA modem,
> I'm assuming that  won't work because it is not pci.

An ISA modem should be OK, but the winmodem is doubtful.  There was a 
project on Sourceforge trying to get a winmodem to work, however.  Google 
around for "Linmodem"

cheers,
Rob

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