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Date:      Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:01:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu>
To:        Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc:        Maxwell Spangler <maxwell@clark.net>, AIC7xxx@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 7890 and RAID portIII RAID controller Linux Support
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.990225124113.3721A-100000@ganesh.phy.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <36D582F5.AC7405E3@redhat.com>

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Masterful work, Doug!  Not since I read Sun's NFS Configuration and
Capacity Planning white paper six or seven years ago have seen such a
cogent discussion of server disk configuration (RAID or not, really).

One question:

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Doug Ledford wrote:

(....deleted...)
> 3.  Before you start to create your RAID arrays, make sure that the /boot
> directory is either on a non-raid / partition, or on it's own partition.  LILO

Would a reasonable solution be to use a single IDE disk as a boot/swap
disk and reserve the SCSI channel(s) for striping or RAID as you
describe?  I've experience a little bit of weirdness running IDE and
SCSI in the same system, but it might have been hardware mediated
weirdness.

   rgb

Robert G. Brown	                       http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone: 1-919-660-2567  Fax: 919-660-2525     email:rgb@phy.duke.edu





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