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Date:      Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:26:45 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: advice on setting up a Vinum volume
Message-ID:  <19990202162645.W76680@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990201232551.A8463@gforce.johnson.home>; from Glenn Johnson on Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 11:25:52PM -0600
References:  <19990201232551.A8463@gforce.johnson.home>

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On Monday,  1 February 1999 at 23:25:52 -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> I am getting a new ultra SCSI disk. I don't have it yet but it will be
> something between 4 and 4.5 GB. I currently have a WDC AC21600H, 1549MB
> drive. I will be making the SCSI disk my primary disk and was trying to
> think of ways to use my existing IDE drive. What I was thinking was to
> take 1549MB from the SCSI disk and make a Vinum striped volume with it
> and the IDE drive. Does any one have a feel for what the performance of
> that setup would be?

As long as you have only one drive per IDE controller, and if you can
use DMA, performance should be acceptable.   It depends a lot on how
you set up Vinum, of course.

Greg
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