From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 15:27:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA04421 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 15:27:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phs.k12.ar.us (garman@phs.k12.ar.us [165.29.117.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA04407 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 15:27:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from garman@localhost) by phs.k12.ar.us (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA17119; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:27:22 -0500 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:27:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Garman To: Randy cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: configuring ccd devices In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Randy wrote: > Greetings, > I seem to be having difficulty understanding how to create ccd > devices and get them up and running. The man pages (ccd and > ccdconfig) have failed to help me get it to work. ( I think there is a > bit of required knowlege it's assumed I have, that I don't yet posess. > Don't you just hate newbies?? :) ) I'm trying to ccdconfig 2 Conner > 80M IDE drives to get a feel for how this works. If I wreck anything, > Honestly, I don't know how to do ccd myself. But ccd'ing two ide drives isn't going to get you any increase in bandwidth or transaction times. Why? Cause ide is broken and won't allow concurrent operations over two drives on a chain. Which, btw, really sucks, when a cdrom and a fast hd are on the same chain so when the cdrom is taking a long time completing an operation (especially evident when it has a read error), i/o to your hd is completely blocked. Blech. If you want to do ccd in any useful form, SCSI is the only way to go. -- Jason Garman http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/ Student, Eleanor Roosevelt High School garman@phs.k12.ar.us