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Turning a PC into a Firewire-Based SAN?

Posted by Cliff on from the reuse-is-a-wonderful-thing dept.

Rachovenov asks: "So I've finally plunked down the money for one of those new, shiny Powerbooks, but they don't have much storage. My old PC is just sitting here with 2 identical 250 gig disks spinning away and an empty firewire port. There's even a hardware RAID controller in there somewhere. So why not use it as a low cost RAID 1 array for the Powerbook when I'm at home? Has anyone done this? How could I make it so that Mac OS X just sees it as a couple of Firewire drives?"

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  1. Re:Errrr... by override11 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I believe he wants to turn his PC into a dum-firewire raid box for his pa-pa-pa-Powerbook. As in: Firewire from his Powerbook to his Pc, so the Mac see's it as a storage device. I dont think there is a way to do this now.

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  2. Re:Errrr... by override11 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    umm, how can I be redundant when I am the first to post a reply saying this? Stupid mods =)

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