Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 21:11:20 +1300 From: "Dr David Hingston" <dlh@xtra.co.nz> To: "unclemib" <unclemib@gryphon.itssa.curtin.edu.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI Drives Message-ID: <08a401bf7079$c2fda620$0a00a8c0@p400> References: <200002060802.QAA45832@gryphon.itssa.curtin.edu.au>
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Hi Richard and Thanks also to you. Hardware: Adaptec 2940, 1 Gig Seagate SCSI II drives. Yes I can configure the SCSI bus with no probs, SCSI ID's, termination etc thanks. David Kelly's post is really helpful, repeated here: > Can you give me a lead to vinum? % man vinum If you have a postscript printer (or compatible) then "man -t vinum | lpr" will generate a pretty copy on the printer. "man -t vinum > vinum.ps" will make a PostScript file you can move elsewhere to print if you don't have a printer configured on your FreeBSD system. also http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. With thanks again. I'll look into your ideas also. PS I have cut and pasted the vinum manual into WORD - 30 pages of it! David Hingston ----- Original Message ----- From: unclemib <unclemib@gryphon.itssa.curtin.edu.au> To: <dlh@xtra.co.nz>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 9:02 PM Subject: Re: SCSI Drives | what make / model hard drives ? | what kind of scsi controller ? 1520? 1540? 2940? | | > Alternatively if I put it on the SCSI bus how can I use it as a second HDD? | | jumper the second hard drive with a different SCSI id (should have a row of | jumpers on the disk labeled A0,A1,A2 or E0,E1,E2 or somesuch - see the manuf | web page ps: dont pick an id like 7 (all ones usually reserved for the controller)) | | take care how you set up the SCSI buss (I assume your card and current SCSI disk are | correctly terminated - remove the termination /->on the new disk<-/ and place it between | the existing disk and controller ps: adding SCSI is kindof like setting up a coax | network in that you have to worry about the correct termination of cabling at both | ends. | | I would then just go back to /stand/sysinstall to partition etc the new disk. | | > Ideally I'd like to mirror the first drive to it, and use this as a = | > backup drive. I cannot find any documentation about this. Can this be = | > done with FreeBSD software? Any directions or instructions? | | Why mirror the whole disk? - i've heard vinum is used here (I have yet to play with it) | - ccd's (see ccdconfig) are working fine for me currently ( I have similar hardware | with 1x1.5G IDE and 3x512M SCSI-2's on an Adaptec 2940 card - the SCSI's are setup | with 3 swap partitions and some ccd's holding /var and /usr ) | | Hope this helps | Regards Richard | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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