> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Robinson > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 5:56 AM > To: Mark Knecht > Cc: Linux RAID > Subject: Re: Low cost PCI-E unRAID - Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 Driver/LBA > questions for HW owners/users > > On 24/01/2011 11:27, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:28 PM, John Robinson > > <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 24/01/2011 01:52, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> Maurice Hilarius put forth on 1/23/2011 5:18 PM: > >> [...] > >>>> If you connect 6GB drives and interfaces to it, you see a lot of > errors. > >> > >> The first PC I bought had a 6GB drive in it. > > > > You make me feel old. I was part of the 'boot CPM from floppy' era... > > 5MHz and it didn't have a hard drive... ;-) > > We're probably actually about the same age then; my first computer used > cassette tape and had a 2MHz 8-bit processor. I started using Ah, that's better. For many years, I didn't own any of the computers I used, at all - purchasing an IBM 360 was a good bit beyond my means. The first "micro" on which I ever worked was a Nicolet 20 bit rackmount with DTL logic and magnetic core memory. The first home computer I ever bought was a Texas Instruments 99/4a. > PC-compatibles 7 or 8 years later, but didn't buy one myself for another > 6 years (that was the one with the 6GB hard drive) by which time I'd > contributed patches to the Linux kernel, Postgres and PHP - and that was > 12 years ago now... Yeah, once the 80386 was introduced, I became interested in an Intel based "clone". I didn't like the limitations of the x86 platform - I still don't - but its processing power, 32 bit architecture, and programming features were sufficient to lure me into purchasing a clone. It had an unbelievable 1MB of memory and a vast 40 MB hard drive, with a system clock of 16 MHz, and of course a 32 bit wide address bus and memory bus. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
