From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 29 19:45:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07110 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:45:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07103 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA06659; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:15:34 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id OAA48482; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:15:34 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:15:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Brian J. McGovern" Cc: hamellr@dsinw.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive Message-ID: <19990130141533.O8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199901300325.WAA22230@spoon.beta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901300325.WAA22230@spoon.beta.com>; from Brian J. McGovern on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:25:07PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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