From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Mar 13 12:52: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5C337B71D; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:51:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14cvlu-000Nc7-00; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:51:58 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f2DKs5N04591; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:54:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:54:05 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Chris Dillon , scsi@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA Message-ID: <20010313215405.A4567@freebie.demon.nl> References: <10186.984516305@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <10186.984516305@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:45:05PM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:45:05PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , Ch > ris Dillon writes: > > >> I have been looking for a long time for a PCI NVRAM card at a > >> reasonable cost, anyone know of any with a reasonable price ? > > > >How "non-volatile" do you want it to be? > > I would want something on the order of an day or so, to cover > catastrophic failures. > > My ideal product would be a PCI card with some SRAM, and a holder > for a 9v DURACELL. Sounds like a PCI Prestoserve card to me. DEC used to produce these. Price? Dunno, probably steep. But Prestoserve cards might find themselves now on the scrap heaps. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message