Help me. Crash! Bang! Boom!
 

Well last night when I got home from work the wife told me that she could not connect to our linux box anymore to connect or disconnect our internet connection. So I plugged the box up to a monitor and keyboard and booted up.
ACK! Hard drive errors all over the place.

So I pulled the computer off the network and put a Dual PII Windows XP computer back in place of it so I could get our internet up and running quickly.

My firewall box crashed and burned. After a couple reboots trying to fix the problems, now my BIOS is reporting that the hard drive has died. :( Well I have had this hard drive for 8 years. 6.5 Gb Quantum Bigfoot. I know it's slow but I have grown quite attached to this drive. I have been able over the past 8 years to zerofill this drive and use it again 4 times now. Probably is time to scrap it and move on.

So now I have a Dual PII system that my Father-in-law gave me for helping him pickout a new machine and installing WinXP on another machine for him.

So I will junk my old quantum drive so I am not tempted to use it again, and I will put linux on my new Dell PII with 9Gb SCSI.

Problem is I don't know what I need to do to enable SMP, and I don't know what it takes to setup a SCSI drive with linux.

Please help if you can.

Thanks in advance.

:Pengy:

Hmm, you'll have to configure the kernel to have SMP support...and perhaps add support for some particular scsi controller, too. Then it's just /dev/sdX and off you go into bogomips-land. :)

Uhm, I think. :P