Re: [users] Re: Where's lame
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:29:17PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:22:33PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > package tree. i would like to adopt the lame mp3 encoder as a debian > > package and was wondering if there are any objections? is there > > already a maintainer? can this packet be debianized? > > Alas, you hit on a faq. > > Please look at: > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package > > > The most recent iteration of the lame discussion can be found at: > http://bugs.debian.org/90091 > > Maybe looking on the web for "unofficial apt sources" will help you > find some .debs (or should I say ".debz"? ;-) the offical lame sources (latest beta) include a debian/ directory, so building a deb is as easy as debian/rules binary (after you get the build-deps :) -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -/- <- -> -/- "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - HHGTTG by DNA -\- <- |--||--||-|--|-|-|-| Version 11.423.999.220020101.23.50110101.042 (c)1996-2000, All rights reserved. Disclaimer available upon request.
Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:48:52PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > See http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/hardware/46g.png for some quick > benchmark results showing the differences between a single IDE drive, two > drives on separate channels, and two drives on the same channel. > > Apart from one drive being exceedingly slow at the start (for reasons I have > not yet determined) it seems that two drives on the same channel isn't much > slower than two drives on separate channels. > > Having two drives on separate channels is slower than a single drive can run > on it's own, I think that this is a limitation of CPU and bus performance > (which will be the main factor when you have 8 drives in an array). Are you sure they two channels are not sharing an IRQ? -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -/- <- -> -/- "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - HHGTTG by DNA -\- <- |--||--||-|--|-|-|-| Version 11.423.999.220020101.23.50110101.042 (c)1996-2000, All rights reserved. Disclaimer available upon request.
Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:33:19PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:42:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > IDE causes a bit of a performance hit, I don't think we're talking high > > speed file access here though... cheap is the objective. > > You'd be suprised at the performance hit. I had 2 drives/channel and > suffered from really bad performance with the on-board Ultra66 controller. I > installed a PCI controller (Promise Ultra 66) and put every drive on its own > channel. Things are much happier now and about 3x faster. The best part is > that the card only costs about $25. Yep, but the problem there is figuring out how to get each channel on a unique IRQ. With some BIOSes, it's just not possible. -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -/- <- -> -/- "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - HHGTTG by DNA -\- <- |--||--||-|--|-|-|-| Version 11.423.999.220020101.23.50110101.042 (c)1996-2000, All rights reserved. Disclaimer available upon request.
Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:39:01PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Hi all > > I notice there are these new-fangled motherboards with 2*ATA-100 and > 2*ATA-33 ports. With 75GB disks, that baby should give us 600GB of raw > disk space (8 drives) at around $2K US. Sounds attractive, considering > that el-cheapo RAID boxes of similar capacity are around $10K. > > Anyone runs [Debian] Linux on an 8-drive box like that? Is that > supported at all? Any gotchas I should know about? The mobo I'm looking > at is ABIT BH6-II. Be warned of the issues with having two hard drives per IDE channel. I know that there were reports of massive corruption when using DMA with specific models of WDC and Maxtor drives on the same channel in DMA mode. You'll also face some pretty serious performance slowdowns when accessing both drives at the same time, since most IDE drives cannot do disconnect/reconnect like SCSI drives can. The best way would be to have one IRQ used for each IDE drive, which is pretty tough to do on an x86 system. Hopefully your BIOS can allow this sort of setup, since IRQ sharing still causes a bit of a performance hit. -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -/- <- -> -/- "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - HHGTTG by DNA -\- <- |--||--||-|--|-|-|-| Version 11.423.999.220020101.23.50110101.042 (c)1996-2000, All rights reserved. Disclaimer available upon request.
