From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 6 4:26:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com (pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com [62.252.56.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B878737B401 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 04:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lfarr (snorlax.bka.epcdirect.co.uk [192.168.10.200]) by pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f86BQ7O02604; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:26:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd-hw@sixforty.co.uk) From: "Lawrence Farr" To: "'Forrest W. Christian'" , Subject: RE: IDE Controllers (Multiple) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:26:27 +0100 Message-ID: <000a01c136c6$c5b03ad0$c80aa8c0@lfarr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 3Ware make 8 port (disk) controllers. You can run them as individual disks, Or use it as a RAID 0 1 or 5 controller. It'll be a lot less hassle that way. >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of >Forrest W. Christian >Sent: 06 September 2001 11:46 >To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: IDE Controllers (Multiple) > > >I need to find out if there are any (inexpensive) controllers out there >which will support a total (using multiple controllers if necessary) of >around 12-16 IDE devices in a single box. > >Using "traditional" IDE controllers, we would be talking 8 chains, 2 of >which are likely already on the motherboard, and we could probably add >another 3 cards each with 2 chains, to get the additional 6 IDE chains. > >That said, I can't find any real solid documentation on >whether any more >than 4 chains (8 drives) will work in a freebsd box, or which >controllers >might support this configuration. > >For those that might wonder: this is actually for a "semi-hot" offsite >backup which gets mirrored once a night, plus gzip'd dumps of the >mirrored drives to another set of drives. We're not performance >critical, and if we loose a drive, oh well... It's not worth spending >the extra few thousand on SCSI drives if we can avoid it. > >No, we're not going to try to run vinum, and we're probably >only going to >be working with one or two spindles at a time and we'll try to >split the >load across controllers. > >Any ideas? > >- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 >http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 >Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message