hi ya... good that these huge systems exists...
att is working on a 12disk ide system... your options for 6 or 8 disks are the promise cards and/or 3ware ... has anybody measured the +12V current needed when all 8 drives start up...at the same time... hummm.... <plug> we have a 1u chassis ( C2300 ) that fits 6 drives we have 4 and 8 drive models in prototype stage... </plug> have fun raiding alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net .. 500Gb 1U raid5 ( ide or scsi3 )... On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Bryan Andersen wrote: > 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. > > It's supported. I don't know about your motherboard. I have a > Promise Ultra 100 on an older MB. Just make sure your power > supply is up to it. I patched a 2.2.18 kernel to add support > for the Ultra 100. Beyond that it's stock. Note, I had to make > the /dev/hd[efgh]* devices. Sofar I haven't done anything with > raiding them. A friend's experience shows that raid 0 and 1, > striping and mirroring, works quite nicely and fast while raid > 5 is slow. This is due to the CPU having to calculate the raid > 5 checks blocks. > > The major issue I've run into is finding places for my 6 HDs. > I ended up using a couple plates of metal to make a short tower > to hold 4 of them in front of a fan. > > This is the df from my system. > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdc1 120995 100189 14558 88% / > /dev/hdc2 3937316 531616 3205688 15% /tmp > /dev/hdd2 3937316 317652 3419652 9% /var > /dev/hdc3 25486572 2089916 22878796 9% /usr > /dev/hdd3 25486572 12028780 12939932 49% /home > /dev/hde2 44171784 38973680 4307648 91% /data1 > /dev/hdg2 44171784 37325684 5955644 87% /data2 > /dev/hdh2 79227344 67338352 11093560 86% /data3 > /dev/hda5 11542670 9426807 2115863 82% /winE > > > -- > | Bryan Andersen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.nerdvest.com | > | Buzzwords are like annoying little flies that deserve to be swatted. | > | -Bryan Andersen | > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
