I need to build a new file server.
(istari.sandelman.ca is 5 years old, has an amazing 12Gb on 5 spindles, and a
whole 100Mhz... yet it works just fine. just no disk space)

Any recommendations on file servers that people have put together? 
my local clone store seems to have lost their clue.

I'm thinking about an Athlon ~800Mhz, 256Mb ram, 3c905 or Intel (on
motherboard ideally). Then either a 3Ware card, or a pair of Promise IDE
controllers. I don't know much about the 3ware cards.

If I use promise IDE controllers, I get a total of 6 drives. (CDrom won't
be connected once I have 6 drives). 

]       ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine.           |  firewalls  [
]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON    |net architect[
] mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[
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