From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 10 17:12:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA09091 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 17:12:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA09085 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 17:12:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA17230; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:49:48 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512111149.LAA17230@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Should a news server be 100% SCSI? To: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:49:47 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Craig Shrimpton" at Dec 10, 95 05:53:50 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Craig Shrimpton stands accused of saying: > > I'm building a news server using FreeBSD 2.1.0 as the OS and INN as the > news handler. I will be using SCSI drives for the news spool but I'm > wondering if IDE has a place. The motherboard is an ASUS PCI and the IDE NO! IDE uses programmed I/O, which requires CPU intervention for data transfer. It's fast, yes, but it eats your CPU. > I ask because I'm worried that 5 news/swap/history spindles may be too > much for the average SCSI controller. So go for two SCSI controllers; the ASUS SC200's are cheap and very fast. > | Craig Shrimpton | e-mail: craigs@os.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[