From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 4 18: 0:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42D637B423 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 18:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp (chimp [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8510PV28708; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 21:00:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000904205235.0337b050@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:55:10 -0400 To: Greg Lehey From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Vinum (was: RAID) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000905102514.D49732@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.2.2.20000904204407.033e2920@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000904120154.07455bd0@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000903213318.074039f0@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000903213318.074039f0@mail.sentex.net> <00090310375700.05988@www.runapplications.com> <4.2.2.20000904120154.07455bd0@mail.sentex.net> <20000905101653.A49732@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000904204407.033e2920@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:25 AM 9/5/2000 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > BTW, is vinum in theory and practice as stable on ata drives as on > > SCSI ? > >Yes. Make sure you don't have more than one drive per controller, or >performance will suffer. I ordered 2 surplus ATA66 controllers for $35CDN on Friday. To start with 3 drives in RAID 5 I guess... Hmmm, actually if one drive in theory is slower (ata 33) will that cause me problems ? ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message