From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon May 20 13:19:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA13373 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 13:19:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl (root@linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA13365; Mon, 20 May 1996 13:18:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uni4nn.iaf.nl (root@uni4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.33]) by linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA14641; Mon, 20 May 1996 22:18:49 +0200 Received: by uni4nn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA02111 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Mon, 20 May 1996 22:18:10 +0200 Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA32276 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Mon, 20 May 1996 21:31:06 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA01678; Mon, 20 May 1996 20:50:17 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199605201850.UAA01678@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands Subject: Re: Who wants a DPT SCSI controller driver? To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 20:50:17 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at May 19, 96 10:12:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >_ > > 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 _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------