From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Dec 10 18:04:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA12269 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 18:04:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from solar.os.com (root@solar.iii.net [199.232.46.97]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA12250 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 18:04:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from jupiter (jupiter.os.com [199.232.47.66]) by solar.os.com (8.7/8.7.0) with SMTP id VAA16745 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 21:11:27 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 21:11:27 -0500 Message-Id: <199512110211.VAA16745@solar.os.com> X-Sender: craigs@solar.os.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Subject: Should a news machine be 100% SCSI? Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I'm building a news server using FreeBSD 2.1.0 as the OS and INN as the news handler. I will be using SCSI drives for the news spool but I'm wondering if IDE has a place. The motherboard is an ASUS PCI and the IDE controller is pretty fast. Should I put the OS and base directory structure on one IDE drive (854MB) and swap/history on another (854MB) drive or should I go with say, 5 2 GIG SCSI drives? I ask because I'm worried that 5 news/swap/history spindles may be too much for the average SCSI controller. Thanks, Craig =================================================================== Shrimpton Consulting Orbit Systems Craig Shrimpton Email: craigs@os.com 17 Monroe Avenue Phone: (508) 753-8776 Worcester, MA 01602 http://www.os.com/