Re: [Nolug] Often overlooked technique for that extra bit of added security

On Friday 10 January 2003 10:47 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 22:08, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
> > On Friday 10 January 2003 08:03 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20020611.html
> >
> > One of the reasons I rescued an AlphaStation 400 from the junk bin at work.
> > It will make a nice server as soon as I get some drive space for it.
>
> Used SCSI drives are pretty cheap nowadays...
> http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations/retired/a400series.html

That's the one. Actually, used SCSI drives are pretty expensive on a $/GB basis.
I think I'll be able to do better with an IDE-RAID card and some drives. The trick
is getting a card that I can configure after bootup, since this box doesn't have a
video card. Real servers have serial consoles : )

Andy

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