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[ale] separate hd for swap?
- Subject: [ale] separate hd for swap?
- From: rkaraff at emory.edu (Robert E Karaffa)
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:15:52 -0500 (EST)
hi folks,
my linux box is all scsi. adaptec 1542, scsi CD, CD-R (well, not
quite yet...as soon as i figure out how to make it work), scsi HD. i've
got a few scsi hd rescued from dead Macs. 250Mb, a couple of 2Gb, 1.2Gb.
isn't it possible to use the 250Mb hd for swap? i've been doing some
google searches and haven't found a negative answer.
i'm about to install mandrake 8.2 on this system using a 6.4Gb
scsi hd for boot, the 250Mb for swap, and a 8.4Gb for storage. anybody
try something like this? the current box has 2 2Gb scsi drives and scsi
CD-ROM, 128Mb RAM, two NICS, and i'm about to re-invent it with the above
specs.
so far, i've seen one scsi hd die, and 4 ide hd die.
depressing...especially with the recent discovery that many current IBM
IDE drives in the Mac G3s and G4s are only to be
used for 333 hours/month
(http://www.macrumors.com/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=3047>)... and
the
scsi drive wasn't really dead, at least not quite yet, it lasted another
year, then shuffled off.
-Bob K.
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