Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 20:50:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who wants a DPT SCSI controller driver? Message-ID: <199605201850.UAA01678@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960519220351.28428Z-100000@zap.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at May 19, 96 10:12:28 pm
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>_ > > On Mon, 20 May 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > > > Seriously, if their stuff is any good I can see a lot of serious > > customers jumping at the opportunity. > > The hardware definitely looks good on paper, and the price point > starts around the level of the current crop of Adaptecs. As I told > Mark at DPT, FreeBSD already has the software muscle to be the top > contender as an NFS server, now it needs some equally potent hardware > to back it up. 42 of those new 23GB Seagate drives per controller, > four controllers per machine == 3TB of *usable* filesystem space (hi, > Satoshi!). :) > -- > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Hmm. 3Tb? Then somebody should go and write a HSM application to control a tape robot.. Could do some testing on our 260+ cartridge DLT library (soon to be able to hold 260+ * 40Gb ;-) (hi, Brian :) Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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