[ale] ALE NW meeting this Thursday!

[Greg Freemyer]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:36:40 -0500, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 
> > Troubleshooting advice is welcome, or if you want I could bring the
> > machine to your meeting and let everyone have a shot at it.
> 
> You're certainly welcome to bring it, but I am by no means a grub expert
> and I have very limited experience with add-on ide cards.  Personal
> experience, they just work.
> 
> After the presentation, we always have a discussion time for such
> issues, so you might find some assistance then.  I'm always up with
> tinkering with hardware. :)
> 
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey

I'm pretty sure it is because I have both 3ware (scsi to linux) and
the add-on adaptec ide controller in the same box that I am having
problems.

To be honest, this incompatibility between add-in cards, USB, 3ware,
SATA is one of my biggest complaints about Linux right now.

I may be unique, but I do a lot of physical disk backups (dd
if=/dev/hdc ...). (Mostly making forensic images of disks and backing
up those images to tape.).

We physically move drives around a lot to do this.  (ie. We have 2
other machines we use to make forensic images in the first place. 
These production machines are not networked due to security /
reliability / repeatability issues, we just physically move a drive
into our tape server and tar it to tape when we make a backup.)

GRUB / Linux just don't seem very happy with mix and match setups I
need.  Maybe I need to investigate LILO again?

Greg
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Greg Freemyer