From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 22 11:31:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28617 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:31:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28609 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:31:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA16830; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:31:38 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:31:37 -0600 (CST) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Robert Adams cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building new mail system In-Reply-To: <038501be45b7$45a7a920$2802fbd1@mp.siscom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Take a peek at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/config.txt. :) On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Robert Adams wrote: > Hello all, > > We're putting together a new box to handle mail.. thought I would pick your > brains a little for advice. Hopefully someone has done this already. > > We are planning on using 4x9gig Cheetahs in a RAID 0+1 configuration.. > Currently we are looking at two RAID-RAID controllers. > > 1) Mylex 2 CHANNEL RAID W-U SCSI DACSXI > 2) CMD CRD-5440 or CRD-5500's > > Few questions.. can anyone recommend one of the above controllers over the > other? If so, for what reasons. Does the RAID 0+1 seem like the way to go? > Or should we go with something like RAID 5? > > The reason we aren't going with something like the DPT controllers is that > you have to boot to DOS to fix a failure... which isn't good imho. Any other > controller/setup recommendations are welcome.. > > TIA, > > Jason > > --- > Robert J. Adams radams@siscom.net http://www.siscom.net > Looking to outsource news? http://www.newshosting.com > SISCOM Network Administration - President, SISCOM Inc. > Phone: 888-4-SISCOM 937-222-8150 FAX: 937-222-8153 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message