I actually own that FirePort 40 and after working with several guys over at
LSI Logic (the now owners of SYMBIOS), I can assure you that XP works with
it as well. Unfortunately, my FirePort is busy running in another machine
with dual 4giggers.
-John
PS: about the "at first you don't succeed ... career choice" : neither
should oil tanker driving while semi -intoxicated nor does wearing your
wife's rubber dish gloves make you ready to handle bio hazard 4 contagions
as a full time job at the [D[.
Um yes, I have had one or two of my emails picked up recently from keywords
that had nothing to do with what was being looked for.
At 12:57 PM 4/13/02, you wrote:
>Rumor has it that Jay West may have mentioned these words:
>
> >ASUS micro-ATX motherboard with built in video and network interface: $65.00
>
>Hmmm... good price!
>
> >30gb ultra IDE hard drive: $0 (I already have this sitting around, but a 2nd
> >to mirror might be nice)
>
>If you want to go SCSI, I have a spare Diamond Fireport 40 I could send you
>- single-channel, Ultra-Wide SCSI-3 - works wonderfully under *nix, and any
>Winders short of XP. I might be able to scare up a SCSI drive as well...
>but the biggest I own is 9G, so if you needed something bigger, you'd need
>to look for donations (but I might have a line on some "less expensive"
>18Giggers...)
>
> >1U rackmount chassis: $150
>
>Nice price - if you don't mind my asking, where'd you land that price at,
>and either 1) does that include a PCI riser card, or at least 2) are they
>available for that case I have a MicroATX Celery (566) that I'd like to
>rackmount...
>
>HTH, and thankz,
>Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>--
>Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
>Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
>
>If at first you don't succeed, ******* *******
>disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
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Received on Sat Apr 13 2002 - 15:50:57 BST