Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:40:48 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-15?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= <neigaard@e-box.dk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Need help with my new server hardware Message-ID: <1608368625.20021122184048@e-box.dk>
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I have just bought an old IBM PC Server 520 from a company that was replacing it. If it's possible, I would like to get some information on it (the company does not have any), and since the computer is only for my own personal use, I can't afford to get official support, and therefore I try writing this list. It would be nice if someone who has a similar server could help me out here, maybe we could take the discussion off-list, so I don't bother you all with my new hardware. The server has 16 4.3GB SCSII disks, and it seems to have 4 RAID controllers (when I look at the RAID configuration tool, but please correct me if I'm wrong). It also has a floppy, a CD-ROM drive and a tape backup thing. The tape backup thing, has a display, and can take a small black box with room for 6 DDS-120 tapes. It also has two pentium 133MHz processors. My plan is to get FreeBSD up and running on it, does that sound possible to you guys? I don't know much about RAID, but is it possible to configure two or more "logical" disk with this setup, where each "logical" disk consists of more physical disk in some RAID setup? If I view my RAID setup, it looks like this (I have removed the unnecessary info): Disk |Size in MB |Raid Level |Stripe Size |Write Policy |Read Ahead 1 |4303 |1 |8KB |WT |On 2 |43030 |5 |8KB |WT |On 3 |1074 |0 |8KB |WT |On 4 |2150 |1 |8KB |WT |On How can this be done with 4.3GB disks, how can there be disk with the size of 1074 and 2150? I'm planning to use RAID level 5, but how do I calculate how much disk space I will get out of how many disks? I would like one "logical" disk for SWAP, one for /var, one for /usr and one for /. Does that sound good? The tape backup thing is not connected right now, how do I connect it, and to what? It is sitting in a spare PC Server 520 I got (without any disks), and it is attached to a controller of some sort (sitting in a PCI slot). I was thinking that I need to move this controller over to the other server, but besides the cable from the controller to the tape thing, there is a cable from the controller to god knows what!? It seems to be attached to a disk rack thing. What do I do with that, and what is it used for? -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:neigaard@e-box.dk -- "Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. " To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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