[ILUG] ide cd writer

[kevin lyda]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:01:09AM +0100, Mark Kilmartin wrote:
> Or just buy another IDE controller.
> e.g. A nice ATA66 controller.

might be an idea.  btw, i have a 230w (i think that's the right unit)
power supply.  the box has two hd's (13g, 75g), a cdrw, network card,
a video card (that might go soon) and an internal modem.  how do i judge
when i'm going to surpass the ratings of the power supply?

also, i bought the cdrw in part to do backups.  the downside is that i
have more then 630m to backup.  for under £500, what are some decent pc
backup options that can handle several gigs?  also, rather then getting
a scsi card for the pc, what about using a sparc ipc as a backup server -
is it fast enough?

> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Rick Moen wrote:
> > > So - as a matter of interest - what would be the ideal configuration
> > > of a machine with 2 hard disks -
> > SCSI.  ;->

btw, i completely agree on this.  the only issue is that scsi disks on
peecee's seem out of place.  if i upgrade to scsi i'd want to upgrade
the cpu to ppc, sparc or alpha.

kevin

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