There is wealth of information one should go through when setting up a major system, for instance for a news or general Internet service provider. The FAQs in the following groups are useful:
Most newsgroups have their own FAQ that are designed to answer most of your questions, as the name Frequently Asked Questions indicate. Fresh versions should be posted regularly to the relevant newsgroups. If you cannot find it in your news spool you could go directly to the FAQ main archive FTP site. The WWW versions can be browsed at FAQ main archive WWW site.
Some FAQs have their own home site, of particular interest here are SCSI FAQ and comp.arch.storage FAQ.
linux-raid, linux-scsi, linux-ext2fs ...
Bootdisk, Installation, , SCSI, UMSDOS ...
Backup-With-MSDOS, Diskless, LILO, Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2, Linux+OS2+DOS, Linux+Win95, NFS-Root, Win95+Win+Linux, ZIP Drive ...
The old Linux Large IDE mini-HOWTO
is no longer valid, instead read
/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/README.ide
or
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt
.
The kernel source is, of course, the ultimate documentation. In other words, use the source, Luke.
Much of the work here is based on the Filesystem Structure Standard (FSSTND). It has changed name to File Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and is less Linux specific. The maintainer has set up a home page which tells you how to join the currently private mailing list, where the development takes place.
Many mailing lists are at vger.rutgers.edu
but this is notoriously
overloaded, so try to find a mirror. There are some lists mirrored at
The Redhat Home Page.
Many lists are also accessible at
linuxhq,
and the rest of the web site is a gold mine of useful information.
If you want to find out more about the lists available you can send a message
with the line lists
to the
list server.
The lists linux-raid
and linux-scsi
are of particular interest.
A few project pages:
Please let me know if you have any other lead that can be of interest.
Remember you can also use the web search engines and that some, like
can also search usenet news.Also remember that Dejanews is a dedicated news searcher that keeps a news spool from early 1995 and onwards.
For diagrams and information on all sorts of disk drives, controllers etc. both for current and discontinued lines The Ref is the site you need. There is a lot of useful information here, a real treasure trove. You can also download the database using FTP.
If you have to ask for help you are most likely to get help in the comp.os.linux.setup
news group. Due to large workload and a slow network connection I am not able to follow that
newsgroup so if you want to contact me you have to do so by e-mail.