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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:Firewire by Glonoinha · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yea ... if only there was a way to make a PC running Windows serve up those files over Ethernet to other computers, perhaps by letting those other computers map to a share or something.

    Naw, that would never work.

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    Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
  2. Re:What's with the ._* files with macs using samba by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > Do you understand?

    With a slashdot id of 143245 you either got your account from ebay or they tried that hibernation thing with you.

    This place is full of Mac and Linux Zealots comparing the latest OSX/Linux release to Win3.11 or Win95