Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 23:25:19 +0100 From: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-hw@epcdirect.co.uk> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: using fibre channel drives Message-ID: <002e01c314e7$8ba3baf0$c80aa8c0@lfarr> In-Reply-To: <1052337059.3eb963a3e148c@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca>
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Hi, I've got 10 of these: scbus2 on isp0 bus 0: <SEAGATE ST318304FC DC03> at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,da1) Running as a Vinum-R5: /dev/vinum/raid5 143G 2.9G 129G 2% /usr/home As well as 10 fast squid caches. Runs like a dream! Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > Bruce Campbell > Sent: 07 May 2003 20:51 > To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > Subject: using fibre channel drives > > > > I'll be taking a Network Appliance F720 file server out of service > within a few months, and will have a large bunch of 18GB and 36GB > fibre channel drives to play with. > > I'm considering FreeBSD and Qlogic with vinum RAID, to get a few > more years out of these disks. > > Does anyone have good/bad experience with FreeBSD/Qlogic, and > has anyone tried recycling netapp disks ? NetApp puts different > firmware on the disks, so I don't know whether they still work > like normal disks. > > -- > Bruce Campbell > Engineering Computing > CPH-2374B > University of Waterloo > (519)888-4567 ext 5889 > > ---------------------------------------- > This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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