Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:15:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: hamellr@dsinw.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive Message-ID: <19990130141533.O8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901300325.WAA22230@spoon.beta.com>; from Brian J. McGovern on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:25:07PM -0500 References: <199901300325.WAA22230@spoon.beta.com>
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On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 22:25:07 -0500, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > Another alternative you may consider is just plain RAID 1 drive mirroring. I > have used a product (can't remember the name) that effectively 'splits' the > IDE chain to two identical drives, and supports RAID 1 in the hardware. It > appears to be smart enough that if one drive gets yanked/pulled/powered down/ > toasted/etc, the other one just "picks up" and keeps going. The whole device > fits in a 3.5" bay, and has warning horns and lights, etc. Unfortunately, I'm > not at the job where they had them anymore, but I believe you can pick them > up from a company called "Wicked Cheap Drives" (their prices are good) for > like $100-$150... I'd use them now, but I don't have anything thats not SCSI > already worth mirroring... If you have problems finding them, let me know, I'll > dig up the URL of the vendor on Monday. Well, you could also use ccd (not recommended) or vinum (recommended). But that doesn't help you when you accidentally delete a file. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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