From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 10 14:46:50 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA26391 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 14:46:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from solar.os.com (craigs@solar.iii.net [199.232.46.97]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA26380 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 14:46:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from craigs@localhost) by solar.os.com (8.7/8.7.0) id RAA16269; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 17:53:50 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 17:53:50 -0500 From: Craig Shrimpton Subject: Should a news server be 100% SCSI? To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I'm building a news server using FreeBSD 2.1.0 as the OS and INN as the news handler. I will be using SCSI drives for the news spool but I'm wondering if IDE has a place. The motherboard is an ASUS PCI and the IDE controller is pretty fast. Should I put the OS and base directory structure on the first drive (854MB) and swap/history on the other (854MB) or should I go with say, 5 2 GIG SCSI drives? I ask because I'm worried that 5 news/swap/history spindles may be too much for the average SCSI controller. Thanks, Craig +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Craig Shrimpton | e-mail: craigs@os.com | | Orbit Systems | information: info@os.com | | Worcester, MA 508.753.8776 | http://www.os.com/ | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+