[Hudlug] SCSI drives vs EIDE for Crimbo

[Shak]

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
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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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