IDE Controller on Alphaserver1200 (and swap question)
Hello, everybody. I have an Alphaserver 1200 running
Debian. It is currently just doing NAT to share my internet
connection with my LAN, and about to be doing DHCP on my LAN once I get
that configured. I now want to make it a file server. I
don't want to invest in big SCSI drives, so I'm going to get an IDE
controller. Can I just get any run of the mill IDE PCI card, pop
it in, and have at it, or are there some caveats I need to be aware of?
I'll continue to boot off the small SCSI drive I currently have the OS
on, so I don't need the machine to see the drives on its own.
Just need to store files. The PCI slots in the machine are longer
than I'm used to, but it shouldn't hurt anything, right?
Also, under Debian/Alpha, swap space adds to memory, right? I
know under some OS's, you need to have at least as much swap as RAM in
order for it to do anything. I have 512 MB in this machine, but
only a 2 GB drive, so I don't want to dedicate > 512 MB to
swap. When I get the IDE drives set up, I can move the swap
there, so it'll be a non-issue then.
Thanks, all!
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