Re: Drives

[Mark <mark@bish.net>]

One question on those promise cards - does the system see the drive as
/dev/hda?

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| Mark Bishop  (mark@bish.net)         |             Computer Engineer |
| 813.258.2390                         |             Network Engineer  |
| http://bish.net                      |          Embedded Programmer  |

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Casey Boone wrote:

> although not exactly an answer for you i have to say that the promise ata100
> controller cards are really really quick
> 
> cost wise i would go with a promise and some 7200rpm ide's
> 
> casey
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark" <mark@bish.net>
> To: "Southern Illinois Linux Users Group" <silug-discuss@silug.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:22 AM
> Subject: SILUG: Drives
> 
> 
> >
> > So, with bish.net experiencing a severe drive failure I get to take this
> > time to evaluate the drive setup.
> >
> >
> > Right now I'm down to one 40Gig IDE drive.  I have one 1Gig SCSi drive,
> > but it is pretty old and I don't really want to trust it.
> >
> > So, I'm in the drive buying business again.  I have one PCI slot avail for
> > either a SCSI card or a UATA card.  What are people opinion on having a
> > fast SCSI drive as a system drive and using two IDE drives as so-called
> > data drives?
> >
> > I'm looking for performance here.  I've seen Steve go from a "SCSI is the
> > way." to "UATA is da bomb"  Now I can either go completely UATA or have a
> > SCSI/IDE combo.  If you have any real-world experience let me know.
> >
> > Choices would be:
> > 9Gig 10,000RPM SCSI drive and either one or two 40GIG IDE drive(s)
> >    non-UATA.
> >
> > or
> >
> > 2 40Gig 7200RPM 100UATA IDE drives
> >
> > I'm liking that 3ware card Steve but I just can't afford it right now.  I
> > want to move out of this PII and into a new AMD.
> >
> >
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> > | 813.258.2390                         |             Network Engineer  |
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