[HLUG] RE: hard drive??

Mark Broadbent mgjbroadbent at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 17 12:31:17 GMT 2005


Hi BoX,

On 17/11/05, Dunstan Lawrence <dunstan.lawrence at allpay.net> wrote:
>  I will be bringing along a server tonight for us to start the build of LFS
> (Linux from Scratch).
> Currently it has a SCSI drive (36Gb), I thought that it might be a good idea
> to have a normal IDE drive too as there may be extra complications in the
> build process (drivers etc.)

SCSI is extremely well supported in the kernel I can't imagine any
problems, but I agree that IDE backup would be nice just in case. 
There is an IDE controller in the server isn't there? ;-)

> I don't have a spare currently, can anyone bring an old one ??
>
> 10 Gb would be plenty!

I'll bring down a spare 4GB drive I have.

Thanks
Mark

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