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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
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