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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: building RAID systems
In-Reply-To: <199707230652.IAA04056@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Jul 23, 97 08:52:54 am"
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:49:59 +0200 (MEST)
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In reply to Christoph Kukulies who wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have a pointer to a recipe to build up
> a RAID system?
> 
> a) what controllers are there?
> 
> b) can one build such systems of cheapo IDE drives?
> 
> (with FreeBSD having control over it - of course)

You could put 4x7gigs EIDE drives on the two EIDE channels on
a modern motherboard. The run CCD to concat them together to
one 28gig drive :)

I do this with two 4gig MAXTOR's, one on each channel of cause,
works like a charm, and have given me 8gigs for US$ 500 ....

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