I've already looked into that. I have two hard drives on both my systems and two devices on the second port adapter, so I would need a controller card and some magic to produce an additional IRQ -- had to remove an ATA 66 controller because I didn't have enough IRQs to use the machine with all the stuff connected.
Have also picked up a Trios unit, but not installed; it would permit having two or three primary hard drives with different OSs, etc. and a common data drive. Little home office setups don't justify the stuff a real business would need. Besides, our principal risk out here is lightning, and when a computer is really fried, any number of hard drives can be destroyed at once. I've had fair success with power protection, had one UPS fried, but computer lived. Had another motherboard fried via telephone line, and a parallel port zapped due to crossed polarity of AC line at different receptacles. Cities are better. Worked for a time in a shop where the VAX cluster downstairs in the bunker was optically isolated from the equipment at ground level. Took a hit which fried the stuff upstairs, including a couple of printers and a dozen dumb terminals. The computers downstairs purred on, and the gas pipeline continued normally. One line printer upstairs survived; it, too, was optically isolated. That place went to backup power one day a week, just to be sure it would work. Choppy At 07:48 AM 10/31/01 -0600, you wrote: >Why buy any tape drive when you can buy two 40g hard drives for $200 and >have the second one mirror your primary? >Just my $0.02. >Larry ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
