[Hudlug] SCSI drives vs EIDE for Crimbo

[Chris Lindley]

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 22:35, Shak wrote:
HI,

Just waiting for my 18.1GB Maxtor 68Pin LVD U160 (4.5ms access time)
drive from Scan!!!

Cheers
Chris
 
> Hi,
> 
> I found an error yesterday associated with my chipset, made me slightly worried that the whole chipset was fatally flawed. I've emailed scan.co.uk to see if they will send me either a new motherboard or a IDE controller card. They made the system last year when I bought it (Im scared of handling £250 processors (I had two of them, and a £200 mobo :eek:)). I dont know whether this was the problem, Ive just recompiled the kernel upto 2.4.20-ac2 but these kernels aren't even booting up (not a good sign). Ive now got a 2.4.19 kernel working that is recognising the chipset,
> 
> My advice to Ferg, stay on SCSI mate, its far easier!
> 
> Shak
> ============================================================
> From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson@tiscali.co.uk>
> Date: 2002/12/16 Mon PM 10:15:46 GMT
> To: hudlug@mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: Re: [Hudlug] SCSI drives vs EIDE for Crimbo
> 
> On Monday 16 Dec 2002 9:02 pm, Shak wrote:
> > Hi Anne,
> >
> > Thanks for your kind offer, however I do not think that the air circulation
> > around my hard disks can be the error. This is because I am running my
> > system in a way that I have 2 fans taking the air in at the front, two at
> > the back taking it out, and then two on the hard disks themselves. I have
> > some spare fans and Ill take my drives out of the caddies and see if they
> > run any more effectively.
> 
> Didn't think for a moment it was.  I offered because it would save cash if it 
> turned out that they didn't help.  The ability to check things out without 
> spending is always useful, but I didn't really think the type of cables were 
> your problem, though of course you may still end up having to replace them 
> with better ones.
> 
> Good luck
> 
> Anne
> 
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