I have a Dec AlphaServer 300 4/266 that I want to put Linux on. It boots, although I dont have the root password for it. It has a cd and a built in ethernet port, so I was hoping to get it up and running using one of those for the installation. My problem is this: it doesn't have a hard drive. From the online specs I found, it has the following: Integrated Fast Narrow single edged SCSI-2 controller with DMA The internal connector is blue (if that means anything in the scsi world), and looks like a large IDE type connector - I didnt count the number of pins but its a lot ;) The hard drive options that originally shipped with this machine were: RZ26N - 1.05gb 8bit narrow 5400rpm drive RZ28L - 2.1gb 8bit narrow 7200rpm drive RZ29L - 4.3gb 8bit narrow 7200rpm drive I don't have a scsi cable for this machine, but I do have some old scsi drives from Sparc 5's This machine is supposed to have a 2mb L2 cache, and the ram is maxed on the box, so I would like to see what it will do, performance wise. Does anyone with scsi experience have any wisdom for me about where to find cables for this motherboard, and any suggestions on cheap hard drives? I dont feel like buying a new drive, because I dont have any scsi machines except the Sparc 5's, and they dont need another drive, anyway. Thanks, Brent Friedman ------------------------------------------------ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030213/7197d9f8/attachment.html