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. :) | 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?"|
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