From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 20:48:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018BC14DD7 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA49869; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:48:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA28876; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:48:38 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: stuyman@confusion.net (Laurence Berland) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some quickies Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 04:48:58 GMT Message-ID: <38323150.744934479@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16 Nov 1999 22:35:36 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >1) How many scsi hard drives will the system support at once? I would think you could cram in 15 per SCSI card. But if you are considering approaching anywhere near that limit, I would imagine looking at an external RAID array would make far more sense. >2) Is anyone doing work to overcome the 4GB Memory maximum? Dont know. >3-4) Does anybody have any links to or information regarding >how much storage space realmedia encoded clips might take up? Does >anyone know of good mass storage devices (presumably SCSI-SCSI I >suppose) that work well with FreeBSD? (And will it look like one drive >or many?) One big drive if you like. For discussions on external RAID boxes, perhaps browse through the relavant newsgroups (e.g. comp.arch.storage, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage etc...) Search through the FreeBSD mailing archives. This topic has come up several times before, and there are some excellent informative and well thought out posts. Remember from the ftp.cdrom.com banner... 230-This machine is a Xeon/500 with 4GB of memory & 1/2 terabyte of RAID 5. 230-NetFRAME 9201 server machine provided by Micron Electronics. Please visit 230-http://www.micronpc.com/web/walnutcreek.html. That might be a starting point... ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message