Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:49:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Courtney Thomas <ccthomas@access1.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum (was: RAID) Message-ID: <20000906084919.C21113@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <39B55AFA.167EB0E7@access1.net>; from ccthomas@access1.net on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:46:20PM -0400 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> <4.2.2.20000904205235.0337b050@mail.sentex.net> <39B55AFA.167EB0E7@access1.net>
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On Tuesday, 5 September 2000 at 16:46:20 -0400, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Mike Tancsa wrote: >> >> 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 ? > > I appreciate being in your debt for knowing...... > > 1-where'd you get the controllers ? > > 2-is vinum the only software needed, i.e. no drivers, etc ...? You'll still need the disk drivers. But they're standard. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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