Re: tlug: found a hard drive

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, 3Web - Jonathan wrote:

> 
> >Anyway, let me know.  The upshot is, though, that we'd need a motherboard
> >that's capable of addressing an IDE drive of that size - some of the older
> >486 boards can't do it.  Preferably the BIOS should also support LBA, so
> >we can get LILO working on it as well.
> 
> 
> Perhaps this is something we could take up a special collection for?  A new
> socket 7 motherboard and an AMD K5-PR133 chip could be purchased for under
> 20,000 yen.  I know a K5 isn't a speed burner, but it's a lot faster than a
> 486 and only costs 7,000 yen.  Is Linux OK with the K5?

Linux is great w/ the K5.  My main fileserver back in the USA has a
K5-133, actually.  My main server here has a K6-200.  I'm a big fan of AMD
- Linux seems to be quite pleased with AMD chips as well.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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