From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 23 11:25:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05104 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:25:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA05086 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:25:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.6/8.7.3) id UAA24871; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 20:24:29 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199707231824.UAA24871@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: building RAID systems In-Reply-To: <199707231805.DAA10825@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jul 24, 97 03:35:27 am" To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 20:24:28 +0200 (MEST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Michael Smith who wrote: > Søren Schmidt stands accused of saying: > > > > > If Joe Blow is looking for capacity over speed, it's hard to see how > > > he'll be able to resist deals like that in favor of SCSI options. > > > > > > Sigh. :-( > > > > Amen.., but for a single user system EIDE drives works pretty well.... > > This is very very true. When I had blown my personal budget buying P6 > bits I resigned myself to the 3GB IBM DAQA 33240. I haven't been > disappointed. Well, I have two 4G EIDE Maxtors on my P6 :), when I get the bus master DMA going, it'll be a tough bunch to beat... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..