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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:37:35 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Craig Shrimpton <craigs@os.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Should a news machine be 100% SCSI?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951211003659.18497B-100000@sasami>
In-Reply-To: <199512110211.VAA16745@solar.os.com>

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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. :)

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