From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Nov 23 18:25:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA24292 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 18:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA24286 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 18:24:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xZo47-0000XT-00; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 18:15:59 -0800 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 18:15:57 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: "James E. Marker" cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Drive Mount Locations....or DPT RAID0? In-Reply-To: <01bcf873$01e14800$7754d8cd@z9a2d9> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, James E. Marker wrote: > I originally posted this to freebsd-questions, and someone suggested I post > it here also. > > ----Original Message----- > From: James E. Marker > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Sunday, November 23, 1997 12:52 PM > Subject: Hard Drive Mount Locations....or DPT RAID0? > > > >I am running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a PentPro-200 with 64 Meg > >of RAM. > > > >Questions: > > > >1. Can I have a hard drive mounted as /var and also mount > > two other hard drive as /var/msg and /var/msg/alt? Yes, just make sure you always mount things in the right order. BTW, this works the same on all Unix systems. > > I am trying to set up two 9 gig drives to hold news. Ouch. 9GB drives are kinda big for news. Generally hurts how many transactions you can process per second. 9GB are passable for alt.binaries, but I find them useless for everything else. Hopefull, this will only be a lightly used system, or only take a partial feed. > > The final configuration will be a 2 gig drive for /usr, > > a 2 gig drive for /var, a 9 gig drive for /var/msg, and > > a 9 gig drive for /var/msg/alt. All the drives are ultra- > > wide SCSI drives with an adaptec 2940 controller. > > > >2. Or, has anyone made a DPT SmartCacheIV PM2044UW > > with a RC4040 RAID adapter work with FreeBSD? I asked > > this once before, but got no responses. There is a DPT drive available as patch. The author has made it available as part of another project. I find it works well (I use a DPT PM334). See SCSI archives. > > If I can get this combination to work, I will have a 2 gig > > drive for /usr and a RAID0 array of a 2 gig, and two 9 gig > > drives as /var. > > > >Sorry, multiple drives are new to me. > > > >Thanks... > > > >Jim... > > > > > Tom