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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!isar.de!news.Steinkamm.COM!oldman.steinkamm.com!not-for-mail From: arne@oldman.steinkamm.com (Arne Steinkamm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: BSDi + AHA2944W + Eclipse RAID Date: 14 Nov 1996 03:57:21 +0100 Organization: Arne Steinkamm Consultancy Lines: 52 Message-ID: <56e1qh$4t8@oldman.steinkamm.com> References: <55j0ci$8l8@gol1.gol.com> <55tuo6$r02@news1.anet-dfw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oldman.steinkamm.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5266 comp.os.linux.misc:141532 In article <55tuo6$r02@news1.anet-dfw.com>, David Bauman <davidb@zeus.anet-dfw.com> wrote: >I would love to run a setup like this. The only problem is, I dont like >Linux/Lunix/whatever and I do like BSD. I've paid some incredible cash to >BSDI and I cant even get support for a AHA 3940UW. They said they 'will' >support it in the next release, however it will ONLY support 7 SCSI devices. >THIS IS CRAP. Ive paid too much money to BSDI to be told that the higher end >pieces of hardware is not going to be supported correctly. The 3940UW can >support up to 15 scsi devices PER BUS.. This is for a total of 30 scsi >devices. I was planning a real nice Intel based News server... Having >a p200 like yours (256 meg ram) a AHA 2940UW to controll the boot drive >and a cdrom, and the AHA 3940UW to controll all the spools. I would also >like to setup RAID on the box as well, but I guess BSD wont be able to >support ANY of this. You would think with the high costs of bsd/os they >would put more time into supporting hardware and fixing the bugs >associated with their OS. > >Guess this isnt going to happen using BSD, maybe I should look into >getting Lunix for free.... Some comments on this: -) The adaptec cards are not the main target which is supportet by BSDi. Read the hardware compatibilty lists and look in the bsdi-users mailinglist archives to find the reasons. Keyword: Licence policy of Adaptec. -) Your posting shows up a major missunderstanding of the way SCSI works. I'm pretty sure, that my systems provided with three SCSI controllers will show up a better performance. I really want to see a SCSI bus having 15 working scsi devices on one chain. By the way: You said "all the spools" Sorry, but what news software do you want to use ? Or do you think about the ccd(4) driver ? -) There are supported RAID systems. -) BSD/OS is a real professional and commercial unix system. In the unix market it's common FIRST to decide the unix version you want to use. If you choose HP-UX, you'll go and buy a HP system, ... (to be continued) If you choose BSD/OS, you are strongly advised to buy the hardware supported by BSDi. -) Read the great papers written by Paul Vixie about good hardware for BSD/OS systems. -) If you really think, that a Linux driver will give you the throughput a 3940UW can manage, continue with your dream. Greetings .//. Arne -- Arne Steinkamm | Mail (MIME): Arne@Steinkamm.COM IRC: Arne Tel.: +49.89.299.756 | URL: http://WWW.Steinkamm.COM/ NIC-Handle: AS306 Robert-Koch-Str. 4 | "There's coffee in that nebula" D-80538 Muenchen | Cptn. Kathryn Janeway, ST:VOY - The Cloud