> >  Now i have INN running on my machine i 
> > have been asked whether or not i can turn this into a proper news 
> > server (after sticking in a 9 gig disk and so on).
> > 
> > What problems would i have?  The drive will probably have to be 
> > SCSI (no ide spaces left).
> 
> I would have thought disc speed would be a bit of a problem since SCSI
> drives don't exactly give very good performance under RiscBSD at the
> moment!

But the SCSI drivers are (will be?) improving over time.  Will the 
hardware be able to take the hammering i am sure the machine will get 
(ie the ethernet card, the scsi card, etc)?

Cheers,

  Duncs.
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| Duncan Ferguson                  I.T. Support Advisor |
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