From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Dec 10 22:38:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA05320 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 22:38:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [205.218.122.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA05311 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 22:38:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA18847; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:37:35 -0600 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:37:35 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: Craig Shrimpton cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should a news machine be 100% SCSI? In-Reply-To: <199512110211.VAA16745@solar.os.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Craig Shrimpton wrote: > I'm building a news server using FreeBSD 2.1.0 as the OS and INN as the > news handler. I will be using SCSI drives for the news spool but I'm > wondering if IDE has a place. The motherboard is an ASUS PCI and the IDE > controller is pretty fast. Should I put the OS and base directory > structure on one IDE drive (854MB) and swap/history on another > (854MB) drive or should I go with say, 5 2 GIG SCSI drives? 5 drives sounds good... Get a second SCSI controller. > I ask because I'm worried that 5 news/swap/history spindles may be too > much for the average SCSI controller. But 2 will work fine. :) | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|