Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 15:38:32 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Dawson <md@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server Message-ID: <IkCnpc30VyTnRVg8VQ@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950821095844.28687D-100000@aries> References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950821095844.28687D-100000@aries>
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[Resending this because it didn't show up in freebsd-hackers. Mark] Excerpts from freebsd: Brian Tao@gate.sinica.ed (691*) > Has someone made some sort of hardware add-on to > PC's like a miniature PrestoServe (say, with a max of 64 megs of > cache) with drivers for FreeBSD so it can flush data out to disk after > a reboot? That would be nifty. Take a look at Compaq's Smart SCSI controller (part #142055-001). It has a couple of megs of battery-backed memory, two fast scsi-2 controllers and does various levels of RAID on upto 14 hot-pluggable disks - it screams along at RAID 0 and the nv-ram gives reliable async-like performance. Switching to RAID 5 makes it really bullet-proof. I have written a FreeBSD driver for this EISA card which is running very happily on a Compaq Proliant 2000 (and hopefully soon a Proliant 1500). Let me know if you're interested! BTW is anyone running FreeBSD on a Proliant 1500 (triflex-pci motherboard)? Mark
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