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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
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