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I have a P-II 350 MHz computer sitting in my office, and I want to spiff it up, within the limits of my budget, before everything that's compatible with its motherboard becomes "legacy hardware". In particular, I want to put in a SCSI controller and a few drives, so I can set up a RAID system. However, the prospect of going to pricewatch.com and just ordering a few refurbished drives is intimidating me, because: (a) There appears to be an alphabet soup of competing SCSI versions, and I'm not sure in advance what drives are compatible with what controllers. (b) My motherboard only has a 100 MHz bus, and I don't want to waste money on drives that are pumping out data faster than the bus can handle. What should I be looking for? Also, what other CPUs will fit into the same slot as the Pentium II (with the same proviso regarding bus speed)? -- "We thought we discovered something subversive when we affirmed that the body, sports and fashion were political. We have only precipitated their indifferentiation into an analytical and ideological fog." --Jean Baudrillard, "Fatal Strategies" // seth gordon // sethg at ropine.com // http://ropine.com/sethg/cv.html //
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