On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Duncan Ferguson wrote:

> 
> have been asked whether or not i can turn this into a proper news 
> server (after sticking in a 9 gig disk and so on).
> 
> What problems would i have?  The drive will probably have to be 
> SCSI (no ide spaces left).
> 
> This is a 710 with an etherh card in it.
Hi,
  Ok in theory there should be no problems but ...

What SCSI card would you be using ? Currently the SCSI performance is not 
good but I hope to be able to look at this in detail shortly.
The alternative would be several IDE discs on a podule. Currently on the 
ICS podule is supported but I expect to support several more podules 
shortly.
What time scale are you looking at ?

Then there is the etherH driver ... Thihas also caused problems but I am 
currently actively writing a new driver from scratch. (I would have had 
it done if it was not for BETT ;-)

Cheers,
				Mark



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