[ydl-gen] B&W and drive not recognised!

[Derick Centeno]

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Dene, not to overstate the obvious, but all servers are fileservers as
everything in Linux/Unix is a file by definition anyway.

Perhaps it would be easier to define what function or task you have in
mind that you expect your server to do.  Will it be a Faxserver, a
Gameserver, or something else?  Will it run Apache, mySQL, both,
neither???
Depending on how you answer that, then one can discuss it being
headless and tasks which will be allowed or not amongst the daemons.

In my opinion, depending on what you are considering doing you may need
less hardware and software so that the server functions efficiently.
As far as dropping down to an earlier version of YDL (or anything
else), doing so depends on the functions you want it to execute as a
server. 

The more efficient you want something, you may need current code
especially if you want your server secure from being hacked and overrun
by another.  The whole security angle is a major consideration,
depending on the server you are considering building and putting into
service.  After all, no one intentionally designs their server to
become a Spamserver or a Virus or Worm or worse server, but it happens
all the time because details matter and few System Administrators pay
attention to the details.

Your current statement of the server you have in mind however is just
too general. As for ideas, there are lots of texts discussing all kinds
of servers complete with defense strategies.

Best wishes...

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:29:09 +0100
Dene Stringfellow <support at ridgedale.co.uk> wrote:

> Derick,
> 
> Thanks for your reply - apologies for the delay in responding - other 
> work has had to take priority!
> 
> Firstly, regarding the Expansys SCSI adapter when I try booting from
> the YDL install CD/DVD the SCSI card is recognised (apparently) but
> the drives on the end are not. I've got a feeling this might be to do
> with the firmware on the adapter, but can't be certain. Everything
> I've tried so far hasn't worked.
> 
> If I remember correctly I think one of my customers has an equivalent 
> setup for one of their servers. I might be able to take the server
> down for a short time out of hours and switch the adapter to see if
> my adapter will work in their server.
> If I do that, do you know if there is likely to be any problems -
> like being left with a server that I won't be able to resurrect?!
> 
> In essence what I want to setup is a fileserver and as there is no
> basic server install supplied under YDL5.x I thought it would be
> simpler and quicker to set it up under YDL4.1. That is the reason for
> my choice of YDL version - to try and get the server up and running
> as quickly as possible, even though I'm not getting very far at the
> minute!
> 
> Thanks again in advance.
> 
> Dene
> 
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