From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 5 21:41:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from stumpy.dannyland.org (stumpy.dannyland.org [209.157.133.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B75014FBE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:41:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyman@stumpy.dannyland.org) Received: by stumpy.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0CA273DC7; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:41:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:41:46 -0800 From: dannyman To: Steve Kaczkowski Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reccomend RAID for FreeBSD + Cyrus Message-ID: <20000105214146.D29204@stumpy.dannyland.org> References: <20000105165135.A29204@stumpy.dannyland.org> <387423EB.EF2B3DD2@inc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <387423EB.EF2B3DD2@inc.net>; from Steve Kaczkowski on Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:11:07PM -0600 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:11:07PM -0600, Steve Kaczkowski wrote: > Checkout the Mylex DAC960SX External SCSI to SCSI RAID controller. > Basically it's a box > that sits in a fullhigh 5.25" bay and has a number of SCSI channels on > it. You run one > side to your onboard (or PCI card) SCSI bus, then hookup one of the > other chains to you > array of disks. You then setup up the RAID (via cool LCD panel or serial > connection) in the controller, up to RAID 5, hot > spares,mirrors,etc,etc,etc. Ahhh, that is a very useful and enticing explanation. So the system provides the Mylex card a home, the Mylex card provides the system a SCSI controller. Add in a nice chassis like a Kingston Data Silo and me own drives and I got RAID-in-a-box. I presume that you have found this to be a very economical and cost-effective solution? Damn, thanyouverymuch! -danny -- come.to/dannyman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message