From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Smith Subject: Re: Re: Usage of readb() and friends... Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:22:54 -0600 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <404668CE.1020504@bitworks.com> References: Reply-To: rsmith@bitworks.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Ayfux-0004M5-S2 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:36:47 -0800 Received: from b44.xdsl.pgtc.com ([198.70.248.44] helo=bitworks.com) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Ayfhm-0003Sb-VL for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:23:11 -0800 Received: from bitworks.com [192.168.1.22] by bitworks.com [127.0.0.1] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP4.R) for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:22:30 -0600 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Linux Frame Buffer Device Development James Simmons wrote: >> >>1) How big of a drive to you have to have? I've got some 4 gigers I can >>donate. > > The driver that died was 9 Gigs. Ok. But do you _have_ to have that much. Will 4 get you going? Or if you can do multiple drives I have a few you could raid them or lvm them into a big drive. >>2) Do you have any way to use SCA drives? > > Its a older (4 years old) machine with built in Ultra Wide 2 scsi support. > Its 68 pin. I believe my mother board supports 80 pin as well. I have to > look. Unless you have a RAID backplane in your setup I doubt you motherboard does SCA (80-pin) devices. Nice if so then nice motherboard. -- Richard A. Smith rsmith@bitworks.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click