From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 24 17:16:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05665 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 17:16:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA05632; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 17:16:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0ySsEE-000301-00; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:50:02 -0700 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:50:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Don Wilde cc: Remy NONNENMACHER , don@partsnow.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb In-Reply-To: <3540E0AF.C3B5C576@ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Don Wilde wrote: > Tom wrote: > > > Better off using the hardware RAID0 in a DPT PM334UW. It also has 64MB > > of write-back cache so, it can re-order i/o to be more efficient. > > > > Also, using only tiny bit of each hard drive improves drive level > > caching. Most drives have only a 1MB cache. > > I have a friend at Winchester Systems who's trying to sell me a SCSI-3 > RAID box, and I think they'd be willing to let us borrow one for a test > in return for favorable mention http://www.winsys.com. He says they work > with fast differential 2944's as host cards. Is the DPT faster with the > direct bus connection? No SCSI at all? SCSI-to-SCSI RAID boxes impose latency. Plus the most you can get out a single array is 40MB/s (or 80MB/s with Ultra2). DPT still uses SCSI, but only to talk to the drives. It talks to the host via PCI (132MB/s), not SCSI that the stand-alone RAID boxes use. > Does anybody have experience with these new Compact PCI chassis that > have 8 PCI slots? An obvious bottleneck for anything we can do is going > to be the chassis limitation on most of 4 PCI. I believe the Compaq > Proliant is EISA. Proliant is a series of machines with many different models. Don't buy anything Compaq. Buy a server class motherboard from Intel. I think they make some nice one with lots of PCI slots. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message