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Re: 64bit PPC and Debian



On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:40:28PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Nov 5, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> >Well, go and look, the size of this beast make you maybe misinterpret 
> >the size
> >of it. There is only 2 drive bays though, but three pci-x or pci 
> >slots, which
> >will probably be enough for whatever you want to do.
> >
> >I suppose that the expansion cards capacity is more than enough, but 
> >two drive
> >bays may indeed be not enough for you, altough two SATA 200GB drives 
> >in raid 0
> >situation may be already a lot.
> 
> If the only relevant space constraint is drive bays, you can always add 
> external firewire (or *horrors* SCSI) disks.

Well, i am having some trouble getting a DPT (now adaptec) smartraid V scsi
controller seeing my disks on pegasos, but i guess a OF-supported pmac scsi
card would have both less trouble, and be way more expensive.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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