From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 14:10:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA04390 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 14:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA04377 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 14:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA00457; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:10:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:10:21 -0400 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199606122110.RAA00457@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast SCSI controller Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.questions References: <4pnbc4$1h1p@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich