We use several old 486 Dell boxes loaded with Linux for testing, serving,
etc...
The EZ-drive software is available at http://www.microhouse.com. It is the
same make of software that WD ships with its drives. You'll need a DOS
partition for this.
An improved IDE controller will also do the trick. And if you feel the need
to go SCSI, I would suggest Advansys SCSI controller cards (AdvanSCSI).
They work beautifully, though I haven't actually benchmarked them against
Adaptec they're plenty quick enough for what we do here.
FWIW,
Beth Gemeny
Systems Administrator
Health Hero
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Housh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 8:22 PM
> To: Thomas Underhill
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: ISA SCSI for Old 486?
>
>
>
> It's called EZ-Drive, and no, Linux doesn't need it. It does,
> however, work fine with it. OTOH, if nothing IDE works well,
> I recommend
> an AHA1542 or AHA1520 SCSI controller. For that machine, you
> don't need
> anything faster, and they're cheap.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> MicroComputer Specialist University of Tulsa
> Engineering and Natural Sciences
>
> "Pardon me, stewardess. I speak Jive."
>
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Thomas Underhill wrote:
>
> > I think that Western digital bundles software with their
> hard drives that
> > lets older pc's see large hard drives. I used to have it
> when i had an old
> > 486 box myself. I can't remember what its called, but you
> may have some
> > luck looking on their website.
> >
> > /thomas
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fred Whipple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 7:49 PM
> > Subject: ISA SCSI for Old 486?
> >
> >
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >I have an old Digital 486DX33 low profile box that I'd
> like to use Linux
> > >with... the problem is it has a standard IDE disk
> controler on-board.
> > >It can't see all of a larger EIDE disk, and I need at
> least 2GB to use.
> > >I assume the 500MB limitation is in the old IDE controler
> and adding a
> > >SCSI card would cure that problem. Anyone know of a good
> ISA SCSI card
> > >that works well with Linux, or, better, where I could get
> one? Haven't
> > >seen any on any Web sites that sell relatively new equipment..
> > >
> > >Any ideas on how to get the old box to see all 2GB of an
> EIDE disk I
> > >have would also do the trick.
> > >
> > >Thanks for any info.
> > >
> > > -Fred
> > >
> > >
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