Re: "obsolete" hardware

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 7 Jun 1997 19:48:59 +0100 (BST)


> Don't think you are joking? The machine I am trying to "upgrade" to
> a new kernel __IS__ a 8MB 386SX/16 ! Fortunately it does not have
> an IDE disk/controller. I just may have to give away my 'old' 486-DX/66
> motherboard I removed when I installed my new dual Pentium board on my SMP
> machine.

One of our firewall/routers was a 386 with 20Mb Seagate ST205 MFM drives.
Its had a disk upgrade to a large (mostly empty) disk as the 205 was starting
to die of old age