Subject: Re: no luck with Adaptec SCSI controller in 2.4.X
From: Kevin B. Hendricks (khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 17:20:25 MDT
Hi,
Are there such things as a ATA controller on a PCI card that I could add
to my B+W G3 (with ATA hard drives being so big and cheap). The B+W has
room for extra internal scsi drives that I could use to mount an ata drive?
That way I could "retire" the Quantum drive before any problems happen.
I just can't see buying scsi anymore when ata are just so darn cheap for
so much drive space. Almost anything would be better that 5400 rpm old
scsi drives.
Thanks,
Kevin
On October 12, 2001 06:02, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> On Friday, October 12, 2001, at 01:06 PM, Michel Lanners wrote:
> > On 12 Oct, this message from David A. Gatwood echoed through
> >
> > cyberspace:
> >> From what I gather, Quantum's high end drives were pretty
> >> decent, but I have a stack of dead Fireballs to prove that their low
> >> end
> >> drives weren't.... :-|
> >
> > I can add one to your stack, a 1.2 Gig originally from my 7600/132.
> > Took the Debian install on my Performa 475 with it when half of the
> > disk surface went unreadable.
>
> Same here, only a 7600/120. Thankfully, in my case, the bad blocks
> first appeared in swap space, causing a kernel panic, which set off a
> million red flags, so that very night, I backed everything up onto a 9
> gig seagate and started using that as the main drive.
>
> I left that Quantum drive in the machine as a backup. A month later, I
> tried accessing it, and it returned "DRIVE FAIL". After a reboot a few
> weeks later, the drive sounded like a chainsaw. :-)
>
>
> Later,
> David
>
>
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