From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 20: 8:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CBFB37B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:08:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49E343E9C for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:08:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stealth215@attbi.com) Received: from attbi.com (h00a0cc76d9f1.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.128.40.180]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with SMTP id <200212040408310530066clbe>; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 04:08:31 +0000 Message-ID: <3DED7F59.7040900@attbi.com> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 23:06:49 -0500 From: David Loszewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021109 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More then 4 IDE devices in one FreeBSD server. References: <1196.192.168.1.10.1038974197.squirrel@email.unixhideout.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For what you're doing just get an IDE Raid controller card, then you'll technically have 8 drives, 4 of which you can raid by hardware and another 4 that you can raid by software. They're not that expensive. Just make sure before you buy one that you check out the supported hardware under your version of freebsd to make sure it is supported. Dave mike wrote: > Hey people, > >Here's the long and short of it. I have my main server unixhideout.com >running samba. All my windows clients programs such as kaZAa and even >their "My documents" save to /mirror /mirror2 /mirror3 and /mirror4 which >are writable shares, that way we can reinstall windows weekly if need be >(ha) but all important data is safe on FreeBSD. Its working really well >for years now. Problem is as you can guess from the subject is i got 4 120 >gig hard drives in there, and i would like to have a CDROM and maybe even >more disks as needed. > >A: What is the hardware name of the device i am looking for that will >allow more then 4 ide devices to one box. > >B: do you know of a brand name i should be looking for that you recommend, >or even a retailer. > >*SCSI is expensive and IS better but at this time not an option so please >stick with IDE in your suggestions. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message