Re: system requirements for SCSI
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote: =I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers =so it can act as an ftp server. [..] =The computer is a Gateway P166 with 32MB of EDO I am using computers like or less than 486 + RAM 16 MB for the gateways. If you recompile kernel (mine is about 450kb) to keep only neccessary things your hardware will run just fine. Thanks to Debian. --- Regards, Pavel Epifanov. [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system requirements for SCSI
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't require much from the processor. Is that right? Also, are there any minimum requirements? The computer is a Gateway P166 with 32MB of EDO ram. First thing to do is as more RAM. Even a SCSI disk can go slow if there's a lot of programs trying to read off it. That way quite a few files can be stored in the file system cache and won't have to be read off the disk. I would also recommend that you look into the 2.3 kernel series - it's less stable than 2.2 so it may not work for you, but the multithreading in the file system layer has led to visible improvements in performance when reading data off disks. It will boot from an IDE drive, but the files that will be available from the server will all be on the SCSI drive. That's fine. Sorry this isn't entirely Debian-related, but I use Debian and I want to install Debian on this computer, too. I'm thinking of buying a 9.1GB IBM Ultrastar 18ES and an Adaptec 2940U2W U2W/S host adapter. I would look into other brands of U2W SCSI adapters, like ones that use the Symbios logic chips - they tend to be quite a bit cheaper (up 40% cheaper last I checked) and work every bit as well. Stick with the IBM disk - you can't go wrong there. Thanks in advance for any input. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
system requirements for SCSI
I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't require much from the processor. Is that right? Also, are there any minimum requirements? The computer is a Gateway P166 with 32MB of EDO ram. It will boot from an IDE drive, but the files that will be available from the server will all be on the SCSI drive. Sorry this isn't entirely Debian-related, but I use Debian and I want to install Debian on this computer, too. I'm thinking of buying a 9.1GB IBM Ultrastar 18ES and an Adaptec 2940U2W U2W/S host adapter. Thanks in advance for any input. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: system requirements for SCSI
Brian J. Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't require much from the processor. Is that right? Also, are there any minimum requirements? The computer is a Gateway P166 with 32MB of EDO ram. It will boot from an IDE drive, but the files that will be available from the server will all be on the SCSI drive. Sorry this isn't entirely Debian-related, but I use Debian and I want to install Debian on this computer, too. I'm thinking of buying a 9.1GB IBM Ultrastar 18ES and an Adaptec 2940U2W U2W/S host adapter. Thanks in advance for any input. I can't comment on the resources required, but I can say that I'd seriously consider some of the other SCSI controllers out there. Don't get me wrong, I have a 2940UW and haven't had any problems with it, but Adaptec charges a premium for their products and have, in the past, been slow to embrace Linux. Do a search for the topic of SCSI controllers via http://www.deja.com and look at what folks have to say. I've seen a lot of good things said about the other SCSI controllers that are a lot less expensive than Adaptec. Good Luck, Gary
Re: system requirements for SCSI
the adaptec 2940u2w (aic-7890) is well supported in every kernel I've seen recently. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gary Hennigan wrote: Brian J. Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't require much from the processor. Is that right? Also, are there any minimum requirements? The computer is a Gateway P166 with 32MB of EDO ram. It will boot from an IDE drive, but the files that will be available from the server will all be on the SCSI drive. Sorry this isn't entirely Debian-related, but I use Debian and I want to install Debian on this computer, too. I'm thinking of buying a 9.1GB IBM Ultrastar 18ES and an Adaptec 2940U2W U2W/S host adapter. Thanks in advance for any input. I can't comment on the resources required, but I can say that I'd seriously consider some of the other SCSI controllers out there. Don't get me wrong, I have a 2940UW and haven't had any problems with it, but Adaptec charges a premium for their products and have, in the past, been slow to embrace Linux. Do a search for the topic of SCSI controllers via http://www.deja.com and look at what folks have to say. I've seen a lot of good things said about the other SCSI controllers that are a lot less expensive than Adaptec. Good Luck, Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: system requirements for SCSI
Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the adaptec 2940u2w (aic-7890) is well supported in every kernel I've seen recently. As I stated, I haven't had any problems with the driver not working. It's more a question of whether Adaptec's product is worth the premium price they place on their hardware and their past reluctance to support Linux (this has reportedly changed since the author of the Adaptec driver works for Redhat and thus has a company behind him with which to push Adaptec). At any rate, it's his decision to make. I would just urge him to research other products before buying in to Adaptec as I did. Gary
Re: system requirements for SCSI
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote: bs7452 I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers bs7452 so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower bs7452 computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't bs7452 require much from the processor. Is that right? Also, are there any yep thats right bs7452 minimum requirements? The computer is a Gateway P166 with 32MB of EDO bs7452 ram. It will boot from an IDE drive, but the files that will be bs7452 available from the server will all be on the SCSI drive. Sorry this bs7452 isn't entirely Debian-related, but I use Debian and I want to install bs7452 Debian on this computer, too. I'm thinking of buying a 9.1GB IBM bs7452 Ultrastar 18ES and an Adaptec 2940U2W U2W/S host adapter. Thanks in bs7452 advance for any input. no minimum requirements for scsi, just need a system compadible with the scsi card. most boards have no problems with adaptec cards, those that might usually are fixed with bios updates. scsi will for sure improve I/O performance for file serving. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:22am up 160 days, 22:29, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 1.06, 1.00
