I have a smaller Antec case (the Plus880) which I think is very good,
but it gets crowded in there if you have a lot of drives. I'm installing
a new Gigabyte motherboard in it and plan to have 3-4 drives connected.
I'll need rounded cables.
I haven't yet tried drives larger than 137 Gb but see the kernel notes
for 7.3:
[cochranb@bobc cochranb]$ egrep '137'
/usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/7.3/RELEASE-NOTES-i386
* LBA48/ATA133 support for drives > 137GB
Bob Cochran
Greenbelt. Maryland, USA
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 12:38, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> John wrote:
>
> > I think you are going to have problems.
> >
> > I presume you want to do lots of I/O.
>
> Not necessarily. This setup is intended to store data for legacy
> projects that are currently taking up valuable real estate on some Sun
> storage arrays, which handle the bulk of the workload. The data on the
> IDE disks would be read much more than written.
>
> Two ATA drives on one IDE port do
> > not work well, you cannot drive them both at once.
>
> Correct. I read (after I sent the first message) that the card has two
> IDE ports, which upon reflection I think I'd only want to connect two
> disks to. Doing so would still leave two unused IDE interfaces on the
> onboard RAID and two "regular" ones on the motherboard, so I could add
> two 120 GB disks to the IDE RAID ports, two 160 GB disks to the Promise
> card, my 20 GB root disk to IDE0, and all of the devices would still be
> masters on their port...I think. ;) Please let me know if I'm glossing
> over anything.
>
> > With all those ribbon cables around, ventilation is going to be
> > doubtful. Sure, you can cut and tie them, but people here who know about
> > electronics will counsel against that. Hello, Jo?
>
> The case I am looking at is an Antec Plus 1080 SOHO file server case
> with 430W power supply. I plan to have 2 more fans in addition to the
> two already included. Seems like there is plenty of room for cables and
> whatnot, although I haven't seen the case first hand. If anyone has
> seen one of these and can comment, please do.
>
> > I recommend you use SCSI or (Maybe) Serial ATA. SCSI is the proven
> > performer, SATA is the new kid on the block.
>
> I need cheap, proven stuff, which throws SATA out. If I had the cash, I
> wouldn't be looking into this setup right now, I'd do more planning and
> testing. Cheetah flips happen a lot more places than just Red Hat! ;)
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> --
> Psyche-list mailing list
> Psyche-list@redhat.com
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
>
--
Psyche-list mailing list
Psyche-list@redhat.com
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
