[KLUG Hardware] SCSI Question and Advice Request
Thera
hardware@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 23:26:40 -0500
Sorry for such a newbish hardware question, but I've never been scuzzy
before.
When the local Kmart shut down, I acquired thier IBM Netfinity 3500 for
a song. ( I sang 'Taps' ; They all started crying ; I took the box and
ran ).
Cerially tho, I've torn her down completely for dust-bunnicide, contact
cleaning, and general admiration of quality design and construction.
The re-build is where the question comes in. Her SCSI cable has active
termination, but I noticed they had jumpered the 'SCSI Term ON' on her
solitary HDD. Doesn't this over-ride the active terminator on the cable
with a less desireable on-card termination ? ...or does it just say 'I'm
the last device on the chain so look for termination after me' ?
Also, I didn't replace her 440LX mobo. I did hit up online surplus for a
second processor, 3 more HDDs, CD-RW, and to up her RAM to it's 512Mb
max, but she's still just a 233MHz w/ 66Mhz bus.
Still undecided what to do with her. ( My other box is an A7V-133 1GHz
T-bird home-brew). I'd use her to host my own domain if I had the
connection/bandwidth, but I don't :(
Any suggestions re: appropriate function, distro/version ?