-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
You can get some ideas from one of the HD How-to's (www.linuxdoc.org). IIRC it was "hard disk partitioning HowTo". On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:39:40 -0600, Jason Joines wrote: > Mainly I was just curious as to whether the fact that the drive was >on a separate contorller would override the fact that it is a slower >ATA-33 drive. > > I do have that many drives requiring that many controllers. The >motherboard has 2 ATA-100 controllers and 2 ATA-133/RAID controllers. >In addition, there are two add on ATA-100/RAID cards with four >controllers each. > > The machine is being used to do backups over a couple of 100 Mbit >networks using multiple NICs.. I have a bunch of 80 GB ATA/100 drives >in removable drive carriers. The two adaptec cards are used to keep 2 >four drive raid 5 arrays. Weekly and Monthly backups are written to >this. The onboard raid is used for the OS, and daily backups. It is >configured as a mirrored raid with a small partition for the OS and the >rest for the dailies. I have 1 GB of DDR RAM. > > We used IDE because it is much less expensive than SCSI and much >better performance than tape. > > I ended up with an extra bay in the case and unused spots on the >controllers so I just thought it might help to throw an extra drive in >dedicated to swap. > > >Jason Joines >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ >Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. Federico Voges Socio gerente Intrasoft Malabia 2137 14 A (1425) Buenos Aires Argentina Te/Fax: 54-11-4833-5182 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.intrasoft.com.ar PGP Public Key Fingerprint: A536 4595 EB6F D197 FBC1 5C3A 145C 2516 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. iQA/AwUBPKOBmRRcJRaVKt4XEQK1aQCdEbCXRUxLY9Jr7eXnafxfNlmoXgQAoIU2 C/cZeN35z+tQgdABSdtCkpnZ =M//P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
