Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:25:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Don Coleman <don@coleman.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103131825490.8771-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200103132345.PAA28094@eozoon.coleman.org>
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Yeah, he's still around. On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Don Coleman wrote: > > The original legato prestoserve board (VME bus) was manufactured by > > Micro Memory Inc, > 9540 Vassar Ave > Chatsworth, CA 91311 > 818-998-0070 > > Our contact was Mose' Jadon. The address and phone # are circa 1989. > > Amazingly enough, a web search turns up http://www.micromemory.com, > and the old phone # is still valid. > > The original board was called the MM6704c by Micro Memory. > > A design firm we didn't pick wanted a bit under $100,000 for > a custom engineering design, plus about $1000 per board. > > A PCI board is *much* smaller then a 9U VME board, and I'd > expect the boards to be a lot cheaper. > > I think you'd want at least a couple weeks of backup, since if the > machine crashes due to a hardware failure, it may not come back > up soon, and the NVRAM is logically part of the disks... > > The original Preserve had 3 NiCd batteries to backup its low power > static CMOS memory, good for about 6 months with no power (it also > had a built in charger). > > don > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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