On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 09:50:15AM -0400, Stanley, Jeremy wrote:
> Knock over a bank to buy SCSI?!? A year ago I bought a brand new 5x2GB
> U2 SCSI array in a tower enclosure with a Symbios Logic U2 controller
> card (drives are all HP) for $350 on onsale.com. At the time, a 10GB
> UDMA drive co
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 7:14 PM
> To: Chris R. Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Three promise cards + onboard IDE?
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> again, I might very well see if there was a small country bank nearby
> to
> knock over... thus
I said:
> It is VERY, VERY hard to place 12
> drives (I have two 4 gigs for raid boot/root) inside a case and stay under
> the 18" ide cable restriction!! Many, many cables are sold that
> are longer than this maximum 18" cable, but these cables can and
> will cause errors under udma under linux
Chris R. Brown wrote:
> I've just come back to my RAID project and have run into some
> more problems. I was wondering if anyone on the list has kludged
> three promise ultra 33 cards and one onboard IDE controller together
> in one box. I'm still trying to get a big (128 gig) array going, b
