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Friday, August 29, 2003
Ordered some adapters for my Seagate Barracuda
drives. They're made to install in an array & lack external
power ports, for one thing. Bought a 4 pack of adapters
on eBay, put one extra harddrive inside an empty 5 1/4
bay, set the scsi pinouts on it, hooked up the power and
scsi cable, booted, and everything worked perfectly. That
means I'll have 9GB of extra storage, independent of the
17GB RAID 5 array, to use as a backup, eliminating the
need for a tape drive. I still have an old tape drive with
a 6 tape changer, but where the cable adapter changes
from scsi 1 to scsi 2, it won't fit between the back of the
hot swappable drive array where the extra connections
are, and the power supply. Guess that'll be the next thing
I search for on eBay. Anyway, about ready to start the
OpenBSD install. Just need to do a little more reading up.
Still running OpenBSD on my old Toshiba too, and feelng
sorry for all my windoze friends with their virus problems.
That said seriously, too, not being a typical windoze
basher.
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