On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Emil Pedersen wrote: > Just curios, do you attach the (100GB+) disk to the mobo ide or do you > use an external (relative new ATA-xx) card? > > I wonder what the pci bridge etc can do in that old machines. Oh, and > how much load does diso io put in the cpu ?
Direct to the motherboard, if the bios doesn't like it, it's set to none in the bios. The machine pulls down backups via smbtar of windows workstations. The p120 can transfer, and gzip -1 faster than what Windows on a Celeron 1000 can spit out on the network. It's not until I go to Pentium 4/2.4's or Celeron 1800's on Windows PC's that it exceeds the p120's capacity. Have been replacing the p120's as they fail with new machines. With the P4/2.4 servers, I have a pair of gzip -9 sessions going, and we see about 5-6 meg a second. As far as cpu load on the machine just transfering files, I'd have to go with not really noticeable. If you copy a multi gig file around, the filesystem will take a couple seconds to return an ls, but cpu load is low, just sitting waiting for IO, which jams up anything else happening. They're dedicated machines, so as long as it can pull the image and gzip on the fly, I'm happy. They work nicely except for: <rant> Travan(8/14/20 gig) drives die after a year or so DDS-3 die after about 3 DDS-4 seems to be better than above </rant> Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
