<snip> > So I'm looking for cheaper alternatives. The box doesn't need to have a very > high > availability, so I think I could manage with standard drives. Unfortunately I > have no > idea which kind of bus-system I should chose. Did anyone manage to get either > Firewire > (IEEE 1394) or Serial ATA controllers/drives to work? Any advice which > controllers are > supported by Kernel 2.4.27? Check the archives. This was discussed (at length) a few months back. In short some ATA controllers work, lots of firewire stuff does (because one of their head developers is also a Debian/SPARC developer) but no one has really tried SATA. Or something like that. Depending on how much you're looking to spend - might some of the ATA/SCSI converters be worth a look?
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