I had to sacrifice my nice Matrox G400 as I ran out of spare AGP cards to use. I needed all the available PCI slots. I stuck in a variety of Fast Ethernet cards and an Adaptec 2940U2 with a 4GB Seagate SCSI disk for good measure. The box seems swell. The board had a connector for the SCSI adapter LED, so the hard disk LED on the front panel actually lights up. Nice. I’ve been too lazy to bother configuring the other boxes like this. I don’t have any more of these connector cables. I just need to get a kernel on the box that supports loading root from a SCSI disk and I’m ready to rock. Amusingly enough, all three differently branded Fast Ethernet cards use the RealTek chipset.
My Athlon XP 1800+ CPU arrived from Newegg today. Tonight I’m going to drop that sucker in my K7S5A. Should bump my FSB up to 133 and give me four times more L2 cache than my Duron 1.2GHz. Not bad for $50.
