Re: Anyone seen a fire server?
At 2002-12-06T03:06:06Z, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 05 December 2002 10:38, Kirk Strauser wrote: Out of curiosity, why would you *want* to pull drives from the fileserver and put them in a different server/workstation? To share the files of course! How silly of me! :) -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Anyone seen a fire server?
On Thursday 05 December 2002 10:38, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-12-05T04:13:45Z, Lord Raiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Out of curiosity, why would you *want* to pull drives from the fileserver and put them in a different server/workstation? To share the files of course! Wouldn't something like NFS serve you better for that? jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Anyone seen a fire server?
At 2002-12-05T04:13:45Z, Lord Raiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The advantage being that you can both hot swap the drives, Ummm, you can do that with many normal SCSI systems. For example, I'm currently working on an older IBM Netfinity server with hot-plug drives in the front of the case. Simply running the 'camcontrol rescan all' command after adding/removing drives updates the available list as expected. and you can take them over to your neighborhood workstation or any server on the lan, plug them in, do what you need, unplug them and take them back over to this network drive hub and plug them back in all without rebooting. I'm not sure that's a great idea. Yes, it's great that you *can* hot-swap drives, but I really don't think it's something you want to do on a continual basis. Out of curiosity, why would you *want* to pull drives from the fileserver and put them in a different server/workstation? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Anyone seen a fire server?
On Thursday 05 December 2002 10:38, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-12-05T04:13:45Z, Lord Raiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Out of curiosity, why would you *want* to pull drives from the fileserver and put them in a different server/workstation? To share the files of course! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Anyone seen a fire server?
From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:06 PM Subject: Re: Anyone seen a fire server? On Thursday 05 December 2002 10:38, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-12-05T04:13:45Z, Lord Raiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Out of curiosity, why would you *want* to pull drives from the fileserver and put them in a different server/workstation? To share the files of course! Hey, I'll come over and install you a NETWORK for the low, low, tremendously LOW price of $48,000/drop. How many machines you got, and whatcha doin Monday? ;-) Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. BTW, this is the stuff you're supposed to do on -chat it's pretty fun over there, and low posting ratecome on over, y'all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Anyone seen a fire server?
Hi all. Got a really interesting question. Someone mentioned this to me and I have yet to find evidence of it so far. Apparently some company out there makes a network file server of sorts that's not your typical network file server. What it is, is the box itself is a multi-port network hub of sorts. Basically each network branch could plug into it (up to 25 branches) and each would have individual access to the files on the box. Now here's the trick. The drives are stored externally and access via firewire. Yup, you heard me right. Externally, and via fire wire. Apparently from what I picked up, the drives themselves are 250gig high speed SCSI drives enclosed in a typical external drive housing that sits on top of the box and connects via firewire. The advantage being that you can both hot swap the drives, and you can take them over to your neighborhood workstation or any server on the lan, plug them in, do what you need, unplug them and take them back over to this network drive hub and plug them back in all without rebooting. I like the idea and I'm trying to find who has one so I can check it out. Anyone seen anything like this yet? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
