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Patrick Moran wrote:
> Make me an offer.

I think I am going to pass.  I already have a 10gig drive that I am not
using yet.

> I have seen really good external cases on ebay at really
> good prices. They also include power supplies. I have seen them go for under
> $20 and these are brand new ones.

I keep looking.  I am really pickey.  Most enclosures are narrow, and I
need wide (68-pin) scsi.

> What I intend to do eventually is get an
> ATX compatible tower case with a MB slide out panel and use this AT full
> tower case for SCSI drives. It can hold up to 3 FH drives internally and I
> have 5 exposed 1/2h bays. I could even put a cage it it with the mother
> board and put more drives it it. I can currently without modifications put
> 11 1/2h drives in and and a ton of LP drives in it. I can set it up as a
> RAID without buying expensive controllers with Linux software. There is a
> Linux HOWTO or mini-HOWTO about doing this. I would like to get several 9GB
> SCSI UW drives. They are getting cheap now.

Make sure you have adiquate cooling!

> Oh! Yes that was an expensive MB. EISA was very good. Slow for today's
> standards but great. 

I like it.  It certainly beats 16-bit ISA!  It is a Unisys, so it came
as a whole server.  I bought it off of Ebay.  It is almost a standard
MB.... it maybe a standard for servers. Servers oftem look like they use
some sort of hybrid AT/ATX motherboards.

> No, this is the Mother Board BIOS that I was talking about. I should have
> made that a little more clear. It an Award BIOS and has no turn off option
> for it. 

Yes, but some provsion should be on the card itself for the scsi bios.

> My card detects this mother board BIOS and let's it take over the
> boot process. The nice thing about it is non memory is used for ROM in UMB.

How does the card detect the motherboard?  Usually it would be the other
way around, wouldn't it?

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA