From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jan 28 18:14:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21137 for sparc-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:14:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21071 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:13:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA23274; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:32:59 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA00542; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:32:41 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980129123241.17584@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:32:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Marc Williams Cc: Matthew Jacob , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement References: <199801272155.NAA05021@feral.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Marc Williams on Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 11:36:17AM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 11:36:17AM -0500, Marc Williams wrote: > If the "Sun driver writer" is going to be yelled at I think his time would > be better spent developing a concatenated disk driver that would allow > software based RAID 0 (disk striping) across two or more adaptec 2940UW > controllers. I have flawlessly cycled about 4GB per day for a year on my > FreeBSD PC server running innd1.5 with this technology and it is a > beautiful thing! I'm working on it for the current FreeBSD versions. I can't see why it shouldn't work on a Sparc port. Greg