New MB recommendations

[Tony Alfrey]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> I think it's time to get a faster box 'cause I have some linux CAD apps 
>> that want more speed.  Towers are clearly cheaper than laptops.  I have 
>> SCSI drives on my present Pentium II box.  Does it make sense to try to 
>> get a fancy new fast MB, and attempt to plug in these drives or is this 
>> silly?
> 
> Given the probably age of a PII box, I would say that the life of any SCSI
> drives in it are a bit suspect.  I would strongly suggest getting a new
> drive for the installation, perhaps using your existing drives as well.
> 
> You're probably better off installing a system on a new hard drive, then
> mounting your existing drives after everything is up and running.

This sounds like a good idea.

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> 
> I just spent a good bit of the weekend fixing one of our servers here that
> had four SCSI drives of approximately the same vintage as yours and a fifth
> newer SCSI drive.  This box had a main board transplant a couple of years
> ago, replacing the Pentium II main board with one with an Athlon 64.  

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I was hoping to avoid a lot of this tweaking, hence wanting to replace 
just a MB.  The existing SCSI drives are relatively new.
I think that my greatest fear is to not break my current box:  I would 
be really hosed.
It may cause me less stress to go out and buy a tower with a SCSI 
controller and then swap in my old drives one at a time.




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Tony Alfrey
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