Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:49:47 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should a news server be 100% SCSI? Message-ID: <199512111149.LAA17230@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9512101720.B16253-0100000@solar.os.com> from "Craig Shrimpton" at Dec 10, 95 05:53:50 pm
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Craig Shrimpton stands accused of saying: > > 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 NO! IDE uses programmed I/O, which requires CPU intervention for data transfer. It's fast, yes, but it eats your CPU. > I ask because I'm worried that 5 news/swap/history spindles may be too > much for the average SCSI controller. So go for two SCSI controllers; the ASUS SC200's are cheap and very fast. > | Craig Shrimpton | e-mail: craigs@os.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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