Re: large ide raid system

2000-01-13 Thread John Burton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: john b said: Performance is pretty good - these numbers are for a first generation smartcan (spring '99) these numbers are also useless since they are much too close to your ram size, and bonnie only shows how fast your system runs bonnie :) a better benchmark

Re: large ide raid system

2000-01-11 Thread John Burton
urrent* Raidzone product? Originally, it was an "md" process running on the system cpu. Currently I'm not so sure. The SmartCan *does* have its own BIOS, so there is *some* intelligence there, but what exactly is the division of responsibility here... John -- John Burton, Ph.D. Senior A

Re: IDE RAID controller?

2000-01-05 Thread John Burton
for (hardware raid w/ hot swap capability) John -- John Burton, Ph.D. Senior Associate GATS, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11864 Canon Blvd - Suite 101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) Newport News, VA 23606 (757) 873-5920 (voice) (757) 873-5924 (fax)

Re: my sunday afternoon nightmare (raid crash)

1999-11-22 Thread John Burton
solving ... Track record is *much* more important as is education in a problem solving field (Physics, Engineering, and occasionally Computer Science depending on the school...) John -- John Burton, Ph.D. Senior Associate GATS, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11864 Canon Blvd - Suite

Re: FW: Dream RAID System (fwd)

1999-10-13 Thread John Burton
18219 16.7 9812 19.5 9707 93.6 34216 21.8 126.4 1.1 Just food for thought... John -- John Burton, Ph.D. Senior Associate GATS, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11864 Canon Blvd - Suite 101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal

Re: backup/redundancy solutions

1999-07-08 Thread John Burton
ce it with a backup copy that is no more than 1 hour old. Should disaster strike and all the filesystems on a machine get destroyed, all we have to do is boot off an emergency diskette, repartition the disks, remake the filesystems, and "rsync" a copy of each of the partitions from the bac

Re: UMDA + RAID, UDMA vs. SCSI

1999-07-01 Thread John Burton
mword1 mword2 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4 John -- John Burton, Ph.D. Senior Associate GATS, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11864 Canon Blvd - Suite 101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) Newport News, VA 23606 (757) 873-5920 (voice) (757) 873-5920 (fax)