Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:10:21 -0400 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast SCSI controller Message-ID: <199606122110.RAA00457@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <4pnbc4$1h1p@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In lists.freebsd.questions you write:
>On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Brian J. McGovern wrote:
>>I'm looking at building a file server for a group of Sun workstations at
>>work. I expect to have several SCSI drives on the machine, and thought it'd
>>be benificial to run them on seperate SCSI buses (ie - 3 drives on on
>>multi-controller installations, and what cards (PCI or ISA - dunno if it'll
>>be a pentium (most likely) or a 486/???). Any comments would be welcome
>No problem with multicontroller, AFAIK. There are many news servers out
>there that use this setup. The preferred unit appears to be the Adaptec
>2940, although other models (3940?) are just as good. The NCR 53c8xx
>series has good performace for a low price. You just have to find them.
>:-)
One thing no one has mentioned is that NFS on FreeBSD is pretty horrid. On
2.1R I get lockups on the client quite a bit, in the server mode I've seen it
hang quite frequently as well. Perhaps in -current or -stable things are
better?
-Crh
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Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
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