[CS-FSLUG] About SCSI

[Josiah Ritchie]

It should work as long as the kernel has the needed SCSI drivers in it,
which is likely. From what I can tell, working with SCSI in Linux is
easier than IDE. That's mostly an opinion thing though really.

JSR/

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 23:42, Ed Hurst wrote:
> I know almost nothing about SCSI.
> 
> Someone gave me an old mini-tower from a corporate network. It has an 
> AMD K6-2/333, a 1.8GB IDE hd, but lacks a CD-ROM. Now, I have a PCI SCSI 
> card from Compaq in my parts box, with a wide connector; I have a wide 
> cable, and an old 6x SCSI CD-ROM. Is there any reason I can't use that 
> combination with a boot floppy to install Linux/Unix? The mobo is your 
> standard mini-tower stuff -- looks like AT (PS/1 keyboard plug).
-- 
Josiah Ritchie
Network Administrator
Washington Bible College
Capital Bible Seminary