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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stripe News Spool
Date: 26 Aug 1995 13:52:45 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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Message-ID: <41n8vd$nmq@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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In article <41isds$dbo_002@ip-salem2-27.teleport.com>, Michael Reeves <mreeves@teleport.com> wrote:
>
> Can Freebsd stripe 3 2gig drives into a single 6gig volume? I'd like
> to use multiple physical drives to increase the performance of a news
> server.
There is an experimental driver for a Compaq EISA RAID-5 SCSI
controller. E-mail Mark Dawson (md@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) for info on it.
This is what he said recently in freebsd-hackers:
On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Mark Dawson wrote:
:
: It has a couple of megs of battery-backed memory, two fast scsi-2
: controllers and does various levels of RAID on upto 14 hot-pluggable
: disks - it screams along at RAID 0 and the nv-ram gives reliable async
: performance. Switching to RAID 5 makes it really bullet-proof.
:
: I have written a FreeBSD driver for this EISA card which is running very
: happily on a Compaq Proliant 2000 (and hopefully soon a Proliant 1500).
: Let me know if you're interested!
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org