Subject: Upgrading an 8500 for YDL Install!
From: Irena and Richard Jenkins (rjenkins@pop.alphalink.com.au)
Date: Sat Dec 15 2001 - 00:07:19 MST
I want to put YDL on my 8500 180mhz PPC, but its got a miniscule 1GB SCSI
drive. I can only stick SCSI 1 drives in that machine which only get as
large as 2GB (sob). There's a USB card and an Ethernet Card leaving one PCI
slot open. What can I do to make this machine a decent box to test Linux
apps on so that I don¹t install stuff on my commercial Linux server and
crash it, pissing all of my current hosting clients off?
Any suggestions that won't require me having to get a second mortgage on my
house?
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Julia
Can I ask: Why are you limited to 1 Gig SCSI hard drives.? At our local
second hand computer markets there is a "flood" of 4.3 Gig drives ... all
with 50 pin connectors ... for around the $AUS 100 mark. New users want 9
or 18 Gig units but these are almost always ultra-fast/wide units ... with 68
or 80 pin connectors. Can I suggest you advertise on ebay for 50-pin SCSI
hard drives (4 gig plus). Quality drives from Seagate, IBM, and
HewlettpPackard, etc ... are available. If you get a SCSI-2 drive ... then
apple firmware will adjust to use it.
I am also going to follow up that remark by one of your correspondents that
you can fit a suitable pci controller card for ATA66 or ATA100 drives (IDE)
and then take advantage of the cheap prices of IDE hard drives. Before I
take the plunge I want to know what brand/model of controller to buy!! New
30 and 40 Gig IDE drives are less that $AUS 200 ... so with another $AUS60
for the controller ... that's still a cheap upgrade.
However my latest second hand Seagate cost $AUS55 posted to me here in
Canberra. Too cheap to pass up!
Currently ($AUS1= 52 cents US!!)
-- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Irena and Richard Jenkins VK1NDV & VK1RJ Canberra, AUSTRALIA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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