[geeks] So what is a "Frankenmac"?

Brian Hechinger geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Jul 25 15:01:35 CDT 2001


On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:28:26PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> 
> Not that long ago, we were discussing these little cards that could be
> used to hook an IDE drive to a SCSI chain.  I would imagine that getting
> one of those cards and a 20gig IDE drive would be cheaper than building
> pretty much any sort of SCSI raid, unless he has the parts in hard
> already, of course.

i just need to get some fibre cable and see if i can get that SSA working. it
already has 3x2GB and 3x4.2GB drives in it and 9GB SCA disks seem to be cheaply
affordable these days.  although i really want to get the NetApp working.  screw
IDE, i'm looking for geek points here. :)

-brian



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