Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 10:51:53 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building RAID systems Message-ID: <199707230851.KAA21593@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19970723104014.09599@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Jul 23, 97 10:40:14 am"
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In reply to Christoph Kukulies who wrote: > > > > You could put 4x7gigs EIDE drives on the two EIDE channels on > > a modern motherboard. The run CCD to concat them together to > > one 28gig drive :) > > Thought of this, too, but this doesn't give me RAID advantages > like hot swapping of media and 28 GB isn't enough, anyway :-) Nope, I guess you have to go for one of those RAID boxes then... > > I do this with two 4gig MAXTOR's, one on each channel of cause, > > works like a charm, and have given me 8gigs for US$ 500 .... > > I have a 3+3GB ccd drive on cvsup.de.freebsd.org myself using > two (though slow) quantum 3GB scsi drives attached to ncr controllers > and despite of occasional scsi command timeouts which I havn't > tracked down yet, it's working nice. BTW, how does one > increase an existing 6GB ccd drive on the fly' (I mean without > backing up the data) ? (assumed answer: impossible) Well its not impossible, just noone has written support for that yet :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..
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