From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 23 02:44:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA07187 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 02:44:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.uninet.ee (ns.uninet.ee [194.204.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA07153 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 02:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (taavi@localhost) by ns.uninet.ee (8.8.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA05378; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:29:55 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:29:54 +0300 (EET DST) From: Taavi Talvik To: Søren Schmidt cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building RAID systems In-Reply-To: <199707230851.KAA21593@sos.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Christoph Kukulies who wrote: > > > > > > 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 :) > > > > Thought of this, too, but this doesn't give me RAID advantages > > like hot swapping of media and 28 GB isn't enough, anyway :-) > > Nope, I guess you have to go for one of those RAID boxes then... There was recent announcement of DPT M3334{U,W,D} RAID Controller Driver. The driver is available, now from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net and from ftp-i.connect.net (ftp.i-connect.net ?) in the /crash directory. best regards, taavi ----------------------------------------------------------- Taavi Talvik | Internet: taavi@uninet.ee Unineti Andmeside AS | phone: +372 6405150 Ravala pst. 10-412 | fax: +372 6405151 EE0001, Tallinn, Estonia |